USN-5561-1: GNOME Web vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-45085   CVE-2021-45086   CVE-2021-45087   CVE-2022-29536  

Several security issues were fixed in GNOME Web.

Details

It was discovered that GNOME Web incorrectly filtered certain strings. A
remote attacker could use this issue to perform cross-site scripting (XSS)
attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-45085,
CVE-2021-45086, CVE-2021-45087)

It was discovered that GNOME Web incorrectly handled certain long page
titles. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause GNOME Web to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2022-29536)