| Name | CVE-2014-5461 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-47-1, DSA-3015-1, DSA-3016-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| lua5.1 (PTS) | bullseye | 5.1.5-8.1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 5.1.5-9 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 5.1.5-10 | fixed | |
| lua5.2 (PTS) | bullseye | 5.2.4-1.1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie, bookworm | 5.2.4-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lua5.1 | source | squeeze | 5.1.4-5+deb6u1 | DLA-47-1 | ||
| lua5.1 | source | wheezy | 5.1.5-4+deb7u1 | DSA-3015-1 | ||
| lua5.1 | source | (unstable) | 5.1.5-7 | |||
| lua5.2 | source | wheezy | 5.2.1-3+deb7u1 | DSA-3016-1 | ||
| lua5.2 | source | (unstable) | 5.2.3-1 |
http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1
fixed in 5.2.3, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132304#c7