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.

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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-47-1 lua5.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3015-1 lua5.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3016-1 lua5.2 security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2338-1 Lua vulnerability
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T11:48:49.016Z

Reserved: 2014-08-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-5461

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-09-04T17:55:07.763

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2014-5461

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2013-04-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-5461 - Bugzilla

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