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CVE-2014-5461

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.

Published

2014-09-04T17:55:07.763

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	12.3	Yes
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	13.1	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	12.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.04	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	7.0	Yes
Application	lua	lua	5.1	Yes
Application	lua	lua	5.1.1	Yes
Application	lua	lua	5.1.2	Yes
Application	lua	lua	5.1.3	Yes
Application	lua	lua	5.1.4	Yes
Application	lua	lua	5.1.5	Yes
Application	lua	lua	5.2.0	Yes
Application	lua	lua	5.2.1	Yes
Application	lua	lua	5.2.2	Yes
Operating System	mageia	mageia	3.0	Yes
Operating System	mageia	mageia	4.0	Yes

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/59890 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/60869 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/61411 ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53 ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23 ([email protected])
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59890 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/60869 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/61411 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)