CVE-2014-5461
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-09-04 00:00
Modified
2024-08-06 11:48
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
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