CVE-2005-0086

high

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in less in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted file, as demonstrated using the UTF-8 locale.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11027

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19131

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145527

https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2404

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-068.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-05-02

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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