Out-of-Bounds Affecting less package, versions [0,475)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.29% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LESS-2374277
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Apr 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2015

CVE-2014-9488  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade less to version 475 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1