USN-2338-1

It was discovered that Lua incorrectly handled certain vararg functions with a large number of fixed parameters. An attacker could use this issue to cause Lua applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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

{
    "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"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

{
    "cves_map": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "cves": [
            {
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "type": "Ubuntu",
                        "score": "medium"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2014-5461"
            }
        ]
    }
}