PT-2015-4239 · Gnu+2 · Less+2

Hanno Böck · Published 2015-04-09 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-9488

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU less versions prior to 475

Description The issue is related to the is utf8 well formed function, which can be triggered by malformed UTF-8 characters. This leads to an out-of-bounds read, allowing remote attackers to have an unspecified impact.

Recommendations For GNU less versions prior to 475, update to version 475 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-2028

CVE-2014-9488

MGASA-2015-0139

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10183-1

SUSE-SU-2020:2687-1

SUSE-SU-2020_2687-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

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References · 27

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2020:2687-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9488 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9488 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9488 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0139 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10183-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9488 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9488 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-9488 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-2028 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9488 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9488 · Vendor Advisory