GLSA 202405-27: Epiphany: Buffer Overflow
| Severity: | normal |
| Title: | Epiphany: Buffer Overflow |
| Date: | 05/08/2024 |
| Bugs: | |
| ID: | 202405-27 |
Synopsis
A vulnerability has been discovered in Epiphany, which can lead to a buffer overflow.Background
Epiphany is a GNOME webbrowser based on the Mozilla rendering engine Gecko.
Affected packages
| Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| www-client/epiphany | < 42.4 | >= 42.4 | All supported architectures |
Description
A vulnerability has been discovered in Epiphany. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.
Impact
In GNOME Epiphany an HTML document can trigger a client buffer overflow (in ephy_string_shorten) via a long page title. The issue occurs because the number of bytes for a UTF-8 ellipsis character is not properly considered.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Epiphany users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/epiphany-42.4"
References
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
Concerns?
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License
Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
