CVE - CVE-2014-9488

CVE-ID
CVE-2014-9488	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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CONFIRM:http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2015-9357 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2015:199 URL:~~http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:199~~ (Obsolete source) MISC:https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/3-less-out-of-bounds-read-access-TFPA-0022014.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2015:0595 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.html
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20150103	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20150103)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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