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