Posted by Hanno Böck on Dec 03

less out of bounds read access – TFPA 002/2014
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/3-less-out-of-bounds-read-access-TFPA-0022014.html

An out of bounds read access in the UTF-8 decoding can be triggered
with a malformed file in the tool less. The access happens in the
function is_utf8_well_formed (charset.c, line 534) due to a truncated
multibyte character in the sample file. It affects the latest upstream
less version 470. The bug does not crash…