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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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade lua5.2. | Aug 30, 2017 | Sep 4, 2014 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Sep 4, 2014 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade lua5.2Upgrade lua5.1 | Jul 30, 2024 | Sep 4, 2014 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade dev-lang/lua. | Oct 30, 2017 | Sep 4, 2014 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2 | — | Upgrade lua | Dec 4, 2019 | Sep 4, 2014 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp3 | — | Upgrade lua | Dec 18, 2019 | Sep 4, 2014 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp5 | — | Upgrade lua | Sep 24, 2019 | Sep 4, 2014 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade runtime/lua to version 5.1.4-0.175.2.3.0.2.0 on Solaris 11.2 | May 29, 2017 | Sep 4, 2014 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 9, 2025 | Apr 17, 2013 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade liblua5_2-32bitUpgrade luaUpgrade lua-develUpgrade liblua5_2 | Dec 18, 2015 | Sep 4, 2014 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade lua5.1Upgrade liblua5.1-0 | Nov 8, 2024 | Sep 4, 2014 |
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