CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-9488
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-04-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The is_utf8_well_formed function in GNU less before 475 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via malformed UTF-8 characters, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.
Affected configurations
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• gnu less (<= 471)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html advisories.mageia.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:199 www.mandriva.com
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/3-less-out-of-bounds-read-access-TFPA-0022014.html blog.fuzzing-project.org
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html advisories.mageia.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:199 www.mandriva.com
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/3-less-out-of-bounds-read-access-TFPA-0022014.html blog.fuzzing-project.org