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CVE-2005-0086

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in less in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted file, as demonstrated using the UTF-8 locale.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 3.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0

References

• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-068.html
• https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2404
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145527
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19131
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11027
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-068.html
• https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2404
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145527
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19131
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11027

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