Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : lua (cve_2014_5461_buffer_errors)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80701

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Synopsis

The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.

Description

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates :

- 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. (CVE-2014-5461)

Solution

Upgrade to Solaris 11.2.3.4.1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80701

File Name: solaris11_lua_20141014.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Family: Solaris Local Security Checks

Published: 1/19/2015

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:solaris:11.2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:solaris:lua

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Solaris11/release, Host/Solaris11/pkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5461

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