CVE-2014-5461

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.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015

http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2

http://secunia.com/advisories/59890

http://secunia.com/advisories/60869

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144

http://secunia.com/advisories/61411

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2