Buffer overflow - CVE-2014-5461
Published: September 4, 2014 / Updated: August 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33088
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-5461
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The 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.
Affected software
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
lua5.2 (Alpine package)
Gentoo Linux
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
lua5.2 (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2014-5461
Install update from vendor's website.
phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - update to 4.2.8-r0
lua5.2 (Alpine package) - update to 5.2.3-r0
lua5.2 (Alpine package) - update to 5.2.3-r0
External References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59890
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60869
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61411
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016
- http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144
- 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53