INFSA-2025:7430: yelp security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:7430

Type: security

Release date: 2025-06-10 08:41:27 UTC

Information about package

Yelp is the help browser for the GNOME desktop. It is designed to help you browse all the documentation on your system in one central tool, including traditional man pages, info pages and documentation written in DocBook.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2025-3155

    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.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
NIST — CVE-2025-3155
no information 7.4 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

Updated packages