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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.

Published

2015-04-14T18:59:02.887

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 10.0 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	13.1	Yes
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	13.2	Yes
Application	gnu	less	≤ 471	Yes

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html ([email protected])
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.html ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:199 ([email protected])
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/3-less-out-of-bounds-read-access-TFPA-0022014.html ([email protected])
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:199 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/3-less-out-of-bounds-read-access-TFPA-0022014.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)