CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-5461
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
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.
Affected configurations
• opensuse opensuse 12.3
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• debian debian linux 7.0
• lua lua 5.1
• lua lua 5.1.1
• lua lua 5.1.2
• lua lua 5.1.3
• lua lua 5.1.4
• lua lua 5.1.5
• lua lua 5.2.0
• lua lua 5.2.1
• lua lua 5.2.2
• mageia mageia 3.0
• mageia mageia 4.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59890 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60869 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61411 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53 security.gentoo.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23 security.gentoo.org
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59890 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60869 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61411 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53 security.gentoo.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23 security.gentoo.org