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Thomas Perale a2c906ee3b package/lua/5.1.5: add patch for CVE-2014-5461
This CVE is specific for the version 5.1.5 still present in Buildroot.
It has been fixed in 5.2.3 and thereby doesn't affects the other
versions available in Buildroot.

- CVE-2014-5461

Buffer overflow in the vararg functions in ldo.c in Lua 5.1 through
5.2.x before 5.2.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial
of service (crash) via a small number of arguments to a function with a
large number of fixed arguments.

For more information see:
  - https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5461
  - https://udd.debian.org/patches.cgi?src=lua5.1&version=5.1.5-11

A patch present in Debian is used to address this vulnerability.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
2025-09-17 21:34:16 +02:00
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