{"cve":"CVE-2014-9488","nvd":{"published":"2015-04-14T18:59:02.887","modified":"2026-06-17T00:18:27.883","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-119"],"references":["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"],"products":["gnu:less","opensuse:opensuse"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:35:35.528235705+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2014-9488","score":0.03885,"percentile":0.90232,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}