CVE-2014-5461 (GCVE-0-2014-5461)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-09-04 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
16 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/4 | mailing-list |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2338-1 | vendor-advisory |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-53 | vendor-advisory |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/2 | mailing-list |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69342 | vdb-entry |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/59890 | third-party-advisory |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… | vendor-advisory |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3016 | vendor-advisory |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/1 | mailing-list |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/60869 | third-party-advisory |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3015 | vendor-advisory |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/61411 | third-party-advisory |
| http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.2-1 | |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… | vendor-advisory |
| http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0414.html | |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23 | vendor-advisory |
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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