Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

Sept. 4, 2014, 5:55 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 2:12 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.9

Exploitability Score :

10.0
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2014-5461 has a 8 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2014-5461 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Canonical ubuntu_linux
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Opensuse opensuse
1 Lua lua
1 Mageia mageia
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2014-5461.

URL Resource
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/59890
http://secunia.com/advisories/60869
http://secunia.com/advisories/61411
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016 Third Party Advisory
http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144 Broken Link
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1 Exploit Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4 Exploit Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/59890
http://secunia.com/advisories/60869
http://secunia.com/advisories/61411
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016 Third Party Advisory
http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144 Broken Link
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1 Exploit Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4 Exploit Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

None

Dockerfile Makefile Python Shell

Updated: 5 months, 1 week ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : July 15, 2024, 3:45 p.m. This repo has been linked 14 different CVEs too.

None

Dockerfile Makefile Shell Python

Updated: 1 year, 4 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : July 26, 2023, 3:05 p.m. This repo has been linked 14 different CVEs too.

Lunacy is a fork of Lua 5.1 being actively maintained

Lua Makefile C C++ Batchfile Shell

Updated: 2 months ago
4 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : Dec. 6, 2022, 2:22 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Map Vulnerabilities into Different Layers of the Container Image

Python

Updated: 1 year, 11 months ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Oct. 5, 2022, 12:07 p.m. This repo has been linked 1276 different CVEs too.

None

Dockerfile Makefile Shell Python

Updated: 3 years, 4 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : July 26, 2021, 9:51 a.m. This repo has been linked 14 different CVEs too.

None

Dockerfile Makefile Shell Python

Updated: 3 years, 4 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : July 26, 2021, 9:50 a.m. This repo has been linked 14 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 4 years, 9 months ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : July 17, 2018, 7:48 p.m. This repo has been linked 494 different CVEs too.

a tool to perform static analysis of known vulnerabilities, trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats in docker images/containers and to monitor the docker daemon and running docker containers for detecting anomalous activities

docker security static-analysis vulnerabilities detecting-anomalous-activities malware-detection

Python Makefile Shell Dockerfile

Updated: 2 weeks, 1 day ago
1164 stars 162 fork 162 watcher
Born at : Nov. 15, 2016, 9:47 p.m. This repo has been linked 14 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2014-5461 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2014-5461 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html
    Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/59890
    Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/60869
    Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/61411
    Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015
    Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016
    Added Reference http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1
    Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342
    Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 03, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23 [No Types Assigned]
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Oct. 30, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:novell:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Oct. 30, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:novell:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 01, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 07, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/61411 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Aug. 29, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:o:novell:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:novell:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* Configuration 3 OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 4 OR *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 5 OR *cpe:2.3:o:mageia:mageia:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:mageia:mageia:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2 No Types Assigned http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2 Third Party Advisory, Mailing List
    Changed Reference Type http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html No Types Assigned http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1 Exploit, Patch http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1 Third Party Advisory, Mailing List, Exploit, Patch
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015 No Types Assigned http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4 Exploit, Patch http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4 Third Party Advisory, Mailing List, Exploit, Patch
    Changed Reference Type http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144 No Types Assigned http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144 Broken Link
    Changed Reference Type http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1 No Types Assigned http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016 No Types Assigned http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016 Third Party Advisory
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 03, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html
    Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 14, 2014

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Sep. 05, 2014

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.30 }} -0.01%

score

0.68889

percentile

CVSS2 - Vulnerability Scoring System
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