Buffer Overflow Affecting less package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.91% (83rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-LESS-1940633
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 10 Mar 2015
Introduced: 10 Mar 2015
CVE-2014-9488 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7 less.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream less package and not the less package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9488
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.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
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.html