CVE-2014-5461

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-5461
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-09-04 17:55:07 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionBuffer 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Lua Lua 5.1 All All All
Application Lua Lua 5.1.1 All All All
Application Lua Lua 5.1.2 All All All
Application Lua Lua 5.1.3 All All All
Application Lua Lua 5.1.4 All All All
Application Lua Lua 5.1.5 All All All
Application Lua Lua 5.2.0 All All All
Application Lua Lua 5.2.1 All All All
Application Lua Lua 5.2.2 All All All
Operating System Mageia Mageia 3.0 All All All
Operating System Mageia Mageia 4.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.3 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Lua: bugs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.lua.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE request: possible overflow in vararg functions af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA59890 - Debian update for lua5.1 and lua5.2 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
USN-2338-1: Lua vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3015-1 lua5.1 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE request: possible overflow in vararg functions af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Lua: Buffer overflow (GLSA 201701-53) — Gentoo security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2014-0414 - Updated lua and lua5.1 packages fix security vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 advisories.mageia.org Third Party Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:144 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Broken Link
openSUSE-SU-2014:1145-1: moderate: lua af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
Lua: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202305-23) — Gentoo security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3016-1 lua5.2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Lua 'ldo.c' Remote Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
oss-security - Re: Lua CVE request [was Re: CVE request: possible overflow in vararg functions] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Advisory SA60869 - Ubuntu update for lua5.1 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 671057 EulerOS Security Update for lua (EulerOS-SA-2019-2382)
  • 710557 Gentoo Linux Lua Buffer overflow Vulnerability (GLSA 201701-53)
  • 710717 Gentoo Linux Lua Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202305-23)
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