CVE-2014-5461

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductOpensuse
PublishedSep 4, 2014
First seenSep 4, 2014

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
opensuse opensuse12.3, 13.1—
canonical ubuntu_linux12.04, 14.04—
debian debian_linux7.0—
lua lua5.1, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4, 5.1.5, 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.2.2—
mageia mageia3.0, 4.0—

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