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CVE-2014-5461

high

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.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/61411

http://secunia.com/advisories/60869

http://secunia.com/advisories/59890

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-09-04

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.22245