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CVE-2014-5461

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
04/09/2014
Last modified:
06/05/2026

Description

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

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:5.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:mageia:mageia:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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