Medium: yelp

Issue Overview: A sandbox escape vulnerability was found in yelp, the GNOME help viewer. Bypassing the fix for CVE-2025-3155, a malicious help document can use a CSS stylesheet embedded in an SVG image to exfiltrate the contents of local files such as files under /proc to an external server witho...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-638-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : yelp vulnerability (USN-638-1)

Aaron Grattafiori discovered that the Gnome Help Viewer did not handle format strings correctly when displaying certain error messages. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted URI, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network...

USN-638-1: Yelp vulnerability

Aaron Grattafiori discovered that the Gnome Help Viewer did not handle format strings correctly when displaying certain error messages. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted URI, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges...