UBUNTU-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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / lua5.1

Package

Name: lua5.1
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/lua5.1@5.1.5-5ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.1.5-5ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

5.*

5.1.5-5

Ecosystem specific

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    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "liblua5.1-0",
            "binary_version": "5.1.5-5ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "liblua5.1-0-dev",
            "binary_version": "5.1.5-5ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lua5.1",
            "binary_version": "5.1.5-5ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}