CVE-2014-9488

Published: Apr 14, 2015Modified: May 6, 2026

10.0

Vector

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

Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 10.0

Source: NVD

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 (3)

Products: Opensuse: Opensuse · Gnu: Less

1 product

1 product

Configuration A

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Opensuse Opensuse	Version 13.1
Opensuse Opensuse	Version 13.2

Configuration B

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Gnu Less	Up to 471

Related CWEs

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (10)

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:199

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/3-less-out-of-bounds-read-access-TFPA-0022014.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html