Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package less (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1510-LESS-289569
- published14 Apr 2015
- disclosed14 Apr 2015
Introduced: 14 Apr 2015
CVE-2014-9488 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream less package and not the less package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-9488
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9488
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html
- 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
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:199