QID 671057

Date Published: 2021-11-29

QID 671057: EulerOS Security Update for lua (EulerOS-SA-2019-2382)

Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications.
Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language.
Lua is free software.
Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics.
Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.
Security fix(es): 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.(cve-2014-5461)

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An arbitrary attacker may exploit this vulnerability to compromise the system.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 4.2 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5 severity.
    • Solution
    The Vendor has released a security update to fix the vulnerability. For more information please visit EulerOS-SA-2019-2382 for updates and patch information
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 671057

    CVE-2014-5461 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    EulerOS-SA-2019-2382 EulerOS V2.0SP2 URL Logo developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-2382
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