CVE-2019-6706

Summary

CVECVE-2019-6706
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-01-23 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-06-23 01:15:00 UTC
DescriptionLua 5.3.5 has a use-after-free in lua_upvaluejoin in lapi.c. For example, a crash outcome might be achieved by an attacker who is able to trigger a debug.upvaluejoin call in which the arguments have certain relationships.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Application Lua Lua 5.3.5 All All All
Application Lua Lua 5.3.5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2019-6706 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Lua-l - [Bug Report] Use after free in debug.upvaluejoin | List View MISC lua.2524044.n2.nabble.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Lua 5.3.5 - 'debug.upvaluejoin' Use After Free - Multiple dos Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
USN-3941-1: Lua vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[Bug Report] Use after free in debug.upvaluejoin MISC lua-users.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3469-1] lua5.3 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Fixed bug in 'lua_upvaluejoin' · lua/lua@89aee84 · GitHub MISC github.com
cve-analysis/CVE-2019-6706.pdf at a43c9ccd00274b31fa2f24c6c8f20ce36655682d · Lua-Project/cve-analysis · GitHub MISC github.com
Lua 5.3.5 Use-After-Free ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296071 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 27.82.1 Missing (CPUOCT2020)
  • 500556 Alpine Linux Security Update for lua5.3
  • 501751 Alpine Linux Security Update for lua5.4
  • 504124 Alpine Linux Security Update for lua5.3
  • 504125 Alpine Linux Security Update for lua5.4
  • 6000153 Debian Security Update for lua5.3 (DLA 3469-1)
  • 900048 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for lua 5.3.5
  • 901011 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for lua (6669-1)
  • 903062 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for lua (2654)
  • 940062 AlmaLinux Security Update for lua (ALSA-2019:3706)
  • 960769 Rocky Linux Security Update for lua (RLSA-2019:3706)
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