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.
References (16)
Core 16
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/59890
Broken Link vendor-advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016
Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/60869
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/61411
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23
Third Party Advisory
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1
Scores
EPSS
0.1157
EPSS Percentile
95.5%
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (16)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
debian/debian_linux
7.0
lua/lua
5.1
lua/lua
5.1.1
lua/lua
5.1.2
lua/lua
5.1.3
lua/lua
5.1.4
lua/lua
5.1.5
lua/lua
5.2.0
... and 6 more
Published
Sep 04, 2014
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026