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authorAaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org>2017-01-23 12:33:03 +0900
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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>2017-01-23: 1</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="http://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>