CVE-2014-5461 (GCVE-0-2014-5461)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-09-04 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:48
VLAI
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
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 81/100 over 987 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2014-08-21 00:00
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