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CVE-2014-9488

less: out of bounds read access in is_utf8_well_formed()

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.5

CVSS 3.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · March 10, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

An out of bound read, with a maximum of 5 bytes, was found in the way the is_utf8_well_formed() function parsed UTF-8 characters. If less was to be recompiled with an address sanitizer, a specially crafted input could crash less.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 2.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 1.2
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')