CVE-2014-5461: Buffer Overflow
First published: Thu Sep 04 2014(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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Reference Links
- 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.html#5.2.2-1
- 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
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23
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- version/canonical ubuntu linux/12.04
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- version/lua lua/5.1
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