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CVE-2020-15888

Lua through 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between stack resizes and garbage collection, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, heap-based buffer over-read, or use-after-free.

Published

2020-07-21T22:15:12.090

Last Modified

2024-11-21T05:06:23.010

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 8.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-125
CWE-416
CWE-787

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	lua	lua	5.4.0	Yes

References

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00053.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00054.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00071.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00079.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/6298903e35217ab69c279056f925fb72900ce0b7 Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/eb41999461b6f428186c55abd95f4ce1a76217d5 Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00053.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00054.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00071.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00079.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/6298903e35217ab69c279056f925fb72900ce0b7 Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/eb41999461b6f428186c55abd95f4ce1a76217d5 Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)