CVE-2014-5461
Fixed in a distro release EPSS 12%
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.
Products: opensuse, canonical ubuntu_linux, debian_linux, lua, mageia
Distro releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | lua51 | no fix |
| Debian 12 | lua5.1 | 5.1.5-7 |
| Debian 12 | lua5.2 | 5.2.3-1 |
| Debian 13 | lua5.1 | 5.1.5-7 |
| Debian 13 | lua5.2 | 5.2.3-1 |
| Debian 14 | lua5.1 | 5.1.5-7 |
| Debian 14 | lua5.2 | 5.2.3-1 |
| Debian 6.0 | lua5.1 | 5.1.4-5+deb6u1 |
| Debian 7 | lua5.1 | 5.1.5-4+deb7u1 |
| Debian 7 | lua5.2 | 5.2.1-3+deb7u1 |
| Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | lua5.1 | 5.1.5-5ubuntu0.1 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | moarvm | 2025.05-1.1 |