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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-5461: lua5.2 stack overflow in vararg functions

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-5461: lua5.2 stack overflow in vararg functions

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/04/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-lua5.2

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