CVE-2020-15888

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-15888
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-21 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-05-16 22:31:00 UTC
DescriptionLua 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125 | CWE-787 | CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Lua Lua 5.4.0 - All All
Application Lua Lua All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Heap overflow in luaH_get MISC lua-users.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
heap-buffer-overflow in luaD_pretailcall MISC lua-users.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Keep minimum size when shrinking a stack · lua/lua@6298903 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Heap overflow in luaT_adjustvarargs MISC lua-users.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Fixed bugs of stack reallocation x GC · lua/lua@eb41999 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Heap use after free in luaD_call MISC lua-users.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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)
  • 900048 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for lua 5.3.5
  • 901479 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for lua (6670-1)
  • 903157 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for lua (2657)
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