Executive Summary

Informations
Name MDVSA-2015:144 First vendor Publication 2015-03-29
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2015-03-29
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Updated lua and lua5.1 packages fix security vulnerability:

A heap-based overflow vulnerability was found in the way Lua handles varargs functions with many fixed parameters called with few arguments, leading to application crashes or, potentially, arbitrary code execution (CVE-2014-5461).

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26493
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26493
Title: DSA-3016-1 lua5.2 - security update
Description: A heap-based overflow vulnerability was found in the way Lua, a simple, extensible, embeddable programming language, handles varargs functions with many fixed parameters called with few arguments, leading to application crashes or, potentially, arbitrary code execution.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-3016-1
CVE-2014-5461
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
Product(s): lua5.2
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26549
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26549
Title: USN-2338-1 -- lua5.1 vulnerability
Description: Lua could be made to crash or run programs.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2338-1
CVE-2014-5461
Version: 3
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): lua5.1
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26619
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26619
Title: DSA-3015-1 lua5.1 - security update
Description: A heap-based overflow vulnerability was found in the way Lua, a simple, extensible, embeddable programming language, handles varargs functions with many fixed parameters called with few arguments, leading to application crashes or, potentially, arbitrary code execution.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-3015-1
CVE-2014-5461
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
Product(s): lua5.1
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 9
Os 2
Os 1
Os 2
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-01-23 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-53.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-144.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-47.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-19 Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.
File : solaris11_lua_20141014.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-27 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-205.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-12 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2014-402.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-22 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-549.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-04 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2338-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-02 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3015.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-02 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3016.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-03-31 13:29:43
  • Multiple Updates
2015-03-29 17:24:33
  • First insertion