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HistoryApr 14, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2014-9488

2015-04-1400:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
15

10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

0.009 Low

EPSS

Percentile

82.7%

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.

Bugs

Notes

Author Note
tyhicks Hanno’s blog post has been updated to say that less 458 is not affected I’ve verified that no stable releases are affected via the reproducers on Hanno’s blog post and valgrind

10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

0.009 Low

EPSS

Percentile

82.7%