EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : lua (EulerOS-SA-2019-1978)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 129135

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the lua package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

- 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)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected lua package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?34b02172

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 129135

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1978.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 9/23/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:lua, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5461

BID: 69342