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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Lua vulnerability (USN-2338-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 77525

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2338-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Lua incorrectly handled certain vararg functions with a large number of fixed parameters. An attacker could use this issue to cause Lua applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected liblua5.1-0, liblua5.1-0-dev and / or lua5.1 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2338-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 77525

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2338-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2014

Updated: 8/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-5461

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblua5.1-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblua5.1-0-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lua5.1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/3/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5461

BID: 69342

USN: 2338-1