CVE-2014-9488 (GCVE-0-2014-9488)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-04-14 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:47
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2015-04-10 00:00
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