CVE-2014-9488
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
10.0
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 13.2 | Affected | — |
| 13.1 | Affected | — |
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 481-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 481-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 481-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 481-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 481-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnu | less | {"endIncluding":"471"} | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9488.html
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9488
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.