CVE-2014-5461

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

12.02% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 96.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

The NVD has published no score for this record

NVD CVSS vector

No NVD score to derive

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2014-09-04 00:00Z12 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 11:48Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2014-08-26

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

3cf9f6cca836033f2ee4ae0fb38852555345e8b791d506730feec0bb9eb40c64

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20140821 Re: CVE request: possible overflow in vararg functionshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4mailing-list
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-2338-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1vendor-advisory
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201701-53https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53vendor-advisory
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20140827 Re: Lua CVE request [was Re: CVE request: possible overflow in vararg functions]http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2mailing-list
• www.securityfocus.com69342http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342vdb-entry
• secunia.com59890http://secunia.com/advisories/59890third-party-advisory
• www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2015:144http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144vendor-advisory
• www.debian.orgDSA-3016http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016vendor-advisory
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20140821 CVE request: possible overflow in vararg functionshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1mailing-list
• secunia.com60869http://secunia.com/advisories/60869third-party-advisory
• www.debian.orgDSA-3015http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015vendor-advisory
• secunia.com61411http://secunia.com/advisories/61411third-party-advisory
• www.lua.orghttp://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2014:1145http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.htmlvendor-advisory
• advisories.mageia.orghttp://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202305-23https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23vendor-advisory