CVE-2014-5461 Information

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.

Reference

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59890 http://secunia.com/advisories/60869 http://secunia.com/advisories/61411 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016 http://www.lua.org/bugs.html5.2.2-1 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53