CVE-2014-9488

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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, 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)	buster	487-0.1	fixed
	bullseye	551-2	fixed
	bookworm, sid	590-2	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

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