SUSE-SU-2020:2687-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2020-09-21 08:55 - Updated: 2026-09-20 13:38
Summary
Security update for less
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for less
Description of the patch: This update for less fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2014-9488: Malformed UTF-8 data could have caused an out of bounds read in the UTF-8 decoding routines, causing an invalid read access (bsc#921719).
Patchnames: SUSE-2020-2687,SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-2687
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5:less-0:458-7.3.3.aarch64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5:less-0:458-7.3.3.ppc64le
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5:less-0:458-7.3.3.s390x
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5:less-0:458-7.3.3.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5:less-0:458-7.3.3.aarch64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5:less-0:458-7.3.3.ppc64le
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5:less-0:458-7.3.3.s390x
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5:less-0:458-7.3.3.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5:less-0:458-7.3.3.aarch64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5:less-0:458-7.3.3.ppc64le
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5:less-0:458-7.3.3.s390x
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5:less-0:458-7.3.3.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact low

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}



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