CVE-2014-9488 Information

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.

Reference

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0139.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/159449.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00077.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:199 https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/3-less-out-of-bounds-read-access-TFPA-0022014.html