Out-of-Bounds Affecting lua package, versions [0,5.2.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
22.25% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LUA-2319485
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed4 Sept 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Sep 2014

CVE-2014-5461  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lua to version 5.2.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

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CVSS Base Scores

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