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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2014-5461 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/59890 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/60869 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/61411 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-5461
NVD Published Date:
09/04/2014
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.