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CVE-2014-9488

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• GNU Less: through 471
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

• 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
• 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

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