CVE-2005-0086: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Affected products
Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.