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Status published
Medium
CVE-2014-5461
Buffer overflow in the vararg functions in ldo.c in Lua...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59890
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60869
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61411
- http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23
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Affected Vendor
opensuse
View all reports →Affected Software
opensuse, ubuntu linux, debian linux, lua, mageia
Vulnerable Versions:
12.3, 13.1, 12.04, 14.04, 7.0, 5.1, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4, 5.1.5, 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 3.0, 4.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
September 4th, 2014
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.