CVE-2014-9488

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 10.0 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2015-04-14

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Less (Gnu)
• Opensuse (Opensuse)

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:199
• https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/3-less-out-of-bounds-read-access-TFPA-0022014.html