Bug 37242 – lua5.1: Buffer overflow (ES 3.1)

Bug 37242 - lua5.1: Buffer overflow (ES 3.1)


Summary:	lua5.1: Buffer overflow (ES 3.1)

Reported:	2014-12-08 15:46 CET by Moritz Muehlenhoff
Modified:	2016-06-14 17:53 CEST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Moritz Muehlenhoff

2014-12-08 15:46:15 CET

CVE-2014-5461

A buffer overflow in Lua's function parsing allows the execution of arbitrary and as a consequence the breakout of the sandbox.

Comment 1 Arvid Requate

2016-06-13 13:36:18 CEST

Doesn't affect server components. The package is required by wireshark-common and nmap.

Comment 2 Janek Walkenhorst

2016-06-14 17:42:55 CEST

(In reply to Arvid Requate from comment #1)
> Doesn't affect server components. The package is required by
> wireshark-common and nmap.
I concur.