CVE-2022-29536 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2022-29536?

CVE-2022-29536 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 20 Apr 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In GNOME Epiphany before 41.4 and 42.x before 42.2, an HTML document can trigger a client buffer overflow (in ephy_string_shorten in the UI process) via a long page title. The issue occurs because the number of bytes for a UTF-8 ellipsis character is not properly considered.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-29536?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Gnome Epiphany.

How do I fix CVE-2022-29536?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2022-29536 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-29536 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CLEANSTART-2024-AR44894, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29536, DSA-5208-1, GHSA-rmxp-r78p-2258, MGASA-2022-0382, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-29536 and 1 more.