CVE-2014-5461
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · Memory corruption
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)12%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1Patch
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59890
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60869
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61411
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016Advisory