In GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal.
Product
GNU less vulnerabilities
2 published CVES affecting GNU less, from public sources (CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV).
- Total
- 2
- Critical
- 0
- High
- 2
- Medium
- 0
- Low
- 0
- Unscored
- 0
- CISA KEV
- 0
Latest GNU less CVEs
Newest publication first
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HighCVSS 7.5
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HighCVSS 10.0
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.
Sources: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV and public exploit-reference metadata. Product matching comes from the published CVE records. A proof-of-concept means public code exists; it is not evidence of exploitation.