CVE-2014-9488

Publication date 14 April 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
less	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life, was needed
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.10 utopic	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored end of life

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Patch details

Notes

tyhicks

Hanno's blog post has been updated to say that less 458 is not affected I've verified that no stable releases are affected via the reproducers on Hanno's blog post and valgrind

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
less	Other: https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/uploads/less-CVE-2014-9488-utf8-overflow.diff

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/10/14
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/3-less-out-of-bounds-read-access-TFPA-0022014.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9488