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CVE-2014-9488

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Date: April 14, 2015

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (10)

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:199

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-9488

Url: https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/3-less-out-of-bounds-read-access-TFPA-0022014.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9488

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html

Url: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9488

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9488

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-9488

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 475

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	10.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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