Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 14, 2015· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2014-9488
CVE-2014-9488
Description
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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Affected products
7- osv-coords3 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/less&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/less&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/less&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5
< 481-1.5+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 481-1.5
- (no CPE)range: < 458-7.3.3
- (no CPE)range: < 458-7.3.3
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