CVE-2014-9488
critical
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
10.0
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
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9488
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9488.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 481-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 481-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 481-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 481-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 481-1 |
| suse | 13.1 | affected | |
| suse | 13.2 | affected | |
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
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.