| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 780247 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| less (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 458-3+deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 481-2.1+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 487-0.1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 551-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 590-2.1~deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 643-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| less | source | (unstable) | 481-1 | unimportant | | 780247 |
Notes
https://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