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high 7.5

CVE-2005-0086 json

Heap-based buffer overflow in less in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possi…

published 2005-01-29 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0087

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • less RHEL 3 378-12

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:068

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-0086 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 less 378-12 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 less 378-12 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 less 378-12 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 less 378-12
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:068

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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