CVE-2014-9488

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-9488
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-04-14 18:59:02 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 10 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Less All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: less-471-4.fc22 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
openSUSE-SU-2015:0595-1: Security update for less af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
less out of bounds read access - TFPA 002/2014 | The Fuzzing Project af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blog.fuzzing-project.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:199 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2015-0139 - Updated less packages fix CVE-2014-9488 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 advisories.mageia.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 671103 EulerOS Security Update for less (EulerOS-SA-2019-2475)
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