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CVE-2014-5461

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.

Score
5.0 medium
Published
2014-09-04
Links
NVD · cve.org

Matched ports (1)

PortPackageVersionStatusMaintainer
lang/lua51lua515.1.5_10unaddressednicklaus.t@me.com

Template for a VuXML entry

Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.

  <vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
    <topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>lua51</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>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.</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2014-5461</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5461</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2014-09-04</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-26</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>