CVE-2014-5461

Public on 2014-09-04
Modified on 2014-09-19
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.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.4
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 lua 2014-09-17 ALAS-2014-402 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P