CVE-2014-5461
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 12.0%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 12.0% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-5348)
- Published
- September 4, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-5348 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- lua / lua
- lua / lua
- lua / lua
- lua / lua
- lua / lua
- lua / lua
- lua / lua
- lua / lua
- lua / lua
- mageia / mageia
- mageia / mageia
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00030.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59890
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60869
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61411
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:144(Broken Link)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1(Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4(Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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