Less Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2004-2264

Format string bug in the open_altfile function in filename.c for GNU less 382, 381, and 358 might allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in the LESSOPEN environment variable. NOTE: since less is not setuid or setgid, then this is not a v...

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.

CVE-2022-46663

In GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal.