CVE-2014-9488
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.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| opensuse / opensuse | 13.1 | 13.1.x |
| opensuse / opensuse | 13.2 | 13.2.x |
| gnu / less | - | 471.x |
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.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
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