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CVE-2014-5461
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…
Medium5.0EPSS 12.0%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 12.0% · top 3.9% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (16)
- [oss-security] 20140821 Re: CVE request: possible overflow in vararg functions (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- USN-2338-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-53 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140827 Re: Lua CVE request [was Re: CVE request: possible overflow in vararg functions] (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 69342 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- 59890 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_transferred
- MDVSA-2015:144 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- DSA-3016 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140821 CVE request: possible overflow in vararg functions (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 60869 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_transferred
- DSA-3015 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- 61411 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_transferred
- http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1145 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- GLSA-202305-23 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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