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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - less: out of bounds read access in is_utf8_well_formed() (CVE-2014-9488)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - less: out of bounds read access in is_utf8_well_formed() (CVE-2014-9488)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - less: out of bounds read access in is_utf8_well_formed() (CVE-2014-9488)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

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).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the less package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - 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.(CVE-2014-9488)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the less package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - 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.(backport-less-CVE-2014-9488-utf8-overflow.patch)

  - 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.(CVE-2014-9488)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the less package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - 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.(CVE-2014-9488)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the less package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - 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.(CVE-2014-9488)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the less package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - 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.(CVE-2014-9488)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

better fix of out of bounds read access in is_utf8_well_formed() CVE-2014-9488 out of bounds read access in is_utf8_well_formed() CVE-2014-9488

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Updated less package fixes security vulnerability :

Malformed UTF-8 data could have caused an out of bounds read in the UTF-8 decoding routines, causing an invalid read access (CVE-2014-9488).

less was updated to fix one minor security issue :

Malformed UTF-8 data could have caused an out of bounds read in the UTF-8 decoding routines, causing an invalid read access. (bnc#921719) (CVE-2014-9488)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
200053	RHEL 5 : less (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
200043	RHEL 6 : less (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
199946	RHEL 7 : less (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
143693	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : less (SUSE-SU-2020:2687-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
141676	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : less (EulerOS-SA-2020-2212)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
137989	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : less (EulerOS-SA-2020-1770)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
134527	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : less (EulerOS-SA-2020-1238)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
132137	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : less (EulerOS-SA-2019-2602)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
131628	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : less (EulerOS-SA-2019-2475)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
130873	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : less (EulerOS-SA-2019-2164)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
84102	Fedora 21 : less-471-4.fc21 (2015-9325)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
84042	Fedora 22 : less-471-4.fc22 (2015-9357)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
82685	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : less (MDVSA-2015:199)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	critical
82245	openSUSE Security Update : less (openSUSE-2015-260)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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