CVE-2014-9488

CriticalCVSS 10.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 10.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Apr 14, 2015
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2014-9488: Critical severity, CVSS 10.0 | Vulnix