Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2014-5461 First vendor Publication 2014-09-04
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-05-03

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

Buffer overflow in the vararg functions in ldo.c in Lua 5.1 through 5.2.x before 5.2.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a small number of arguments to a function with a large number of fixed arguments.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-5461

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

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342
CONFIRM http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html
http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23
MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/59890
http://secunia.com/advisories/60869
http://secunia.com/advisories/61411
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html
UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1

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