Bug#1102080: yelp: CVE-2025-3155

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: yelp
Version: 42.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/yelp/-/issues/221
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for yelp.

CVE-2025-3155[0]:
| A flaw was found in Yelp. The Gnome user help application allows the
| help document to execute arbitrary scripts. This vulnerability
| allows malicious users to input help documents, which may exfiltrate
| user files to an external environment.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-3155
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-3155
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/yelp/-/issues/221

Regards,
Salvatore