CVE-2014-5461
lua: overflow flaw in vararg functions
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
Review impact separately from score.
Published · April 17, 2013
Updated · November 21, 2025
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.
Statement
This issue affects the versions of lua as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 4.4AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer