Lua: Buffer overflow

Lua: Buffer overflow A buffer overflow in Lua might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code. lua 2017-01-23 2017-01-23 520480 local, remote 5.1.5-r4 5.1.5-r4

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

A buffer overflow was discovered in the vararg functions in ldo.c in Lua.

Context-dependent could cause a Denial of Service condition or execute arbitrary code.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Lua users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r4"

CVE-2014-5461 b-man b-man