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    6 vulnerabilities found for less by gnu

    CVE-2022-46663 (GCVE-0-2022-46663)

    Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2023-02-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-25 14:40
    VLAI
    Summary
    In GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal.
    SSVC
    Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
    CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
    Assigner
    Show details on NVD website

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    CVE-2014-9488 (GCVE-0-2014-9488)

    Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2015-04-14 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:47
    VLAI
    Summary
    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.
    Severity
    No CVSS data available.
    CWE
    • n/a
    Assigner
    References
    Date Public
    2015-04-10 00:00
    Show details on NVD website

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    CVE-2004-2264 (GCVE-0-2004-2264)

    Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2005-07-19 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:22 Disputed
    VLAI
    Summary
    Format string bug in the open_altfile function in filename.c for GNU less 382, 381, and 358 might allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in the LESSOPEN environment variable. NOTE: since less is not setuid or setgid, then this is not a vulnerability unless there are plausible scenarios under which privilege boundaries could be crossed
    Severity
    No CVSS data available.
    CWE
    • n/a
    Assigner
    References
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    Date Public
    2004-08-18 00:00
    Show details on NVD website

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    CVE-2022-46663 (GCVE-0-2022-46663)

    Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-25 14:40
    VLAI
    Summary
    In GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal.
    SSVC
    Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
    CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
    Assigner
    Show details on NVD website

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    CVE-2014-9488 (GCVE-0-2014-9488)

    Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-04-14 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:47
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