Epiphany: Buffer Overflow

Epiphany: Buffer Overflow A vulnerability has been discovered in Epiphany, which can lead to a buffer overflow. epiphany 2024-05-08 2024-05-08 839786 remote 42.4 42.4

Epiphany is a GNOME webbrowser based on the Mozilla rendering engine Gecko.

A vulnerability has been discovered in Epiphany. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

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.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Epiphany users should upgrade to the latest version:


          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/epiphany-42.4"

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