Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2014-5461 |
CWE-ID | CWE-119 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Amazon Linux AMI Operating systems & Components / Operating system |
Vendor | Amazon Web Services |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU33088
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-5461
CWE-ID:
CWE-119 - Memory corruption
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
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.
MitigationUpdate the affected packages:
i686:Vulnerable software versions
lua-5.1.4-4.1.9.amzn1.i686
lua-devel-5.1.4-4.1.9.amzn1.i686
lua-debuginfo-5.1.4-4.1.9.amzn1.i686
lua-static-5.1.4-4.1.9.amzn1.i686
src:
lua-5.1.4-4.1.9.amzn1.src
x86_64:
lua-devel-5.1.4-4.1.9.amzn1.x86_64
lua-debuginfo-5.1.4-4.1.9.amzn1.x86_64
lua-static-5.1.4-4.1.9.amzn1.x86_64
lua-5.1.4-4.1.9.amzn1.x86_64
Amazon Linux AMI: All versions
External linkshttp://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-402.html
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.