gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201701-53.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201701-53">
<title>Lua: Buffer overflow</title>
<synopsis>A buffer overflow in Lua might allow context-dependent attackers to
execute arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">lua</product>
<announced>2017-01-23</announced>
<revised count="1">2017-01-23</revised>
<bug>520480</bug>
<access>local, remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="dev-lang/lua" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">5.1.5-r4</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">5.1.5-r4</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting
language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented
programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data
description.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>A buffer overflow was discovered in the vararg functions in ldo.c in
Lua.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>Context-dependent could cause a Denial of Service condition or execute
arbitrary code.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Lua users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r4"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-5461">CVE-2014-5461</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-01-19T10:51:05Z">b-man</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-01-23T03:32:26Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>