Lua could be made to crash or run programs.
It was discovered that Lua incorrectly handled certain vararg functions with a large number of fixed parameters. An attacker could use this issue to cause Lua applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
3 September 2014
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Lua could be made to crash or run programs.
It was discovered that Lua incorrectly handled certain vararg functions with a large number of fixed parameters. An attacker could use this issue to cause Lua applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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