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CVE-2014-9488

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

Related Resources (10)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:199
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-9488
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/3-less-out-of-bounds-read-access-TFPA-0022014.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9488
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9488
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9488
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-9488

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

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