CVE-2014-9488

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    CVE-2014-9488

    Published: 14 Apr 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.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, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.html

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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