CVE-2020-15889

Summary

CVECVE-2020-15889
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-21 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-12-23 17:41:00 UTC
DescriptionLua 5.4.0 has a getobjname heap-based buffer over-read because youngcollection in lgc.c uses markold for an insufficient number of list members.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
heap-buffer-overflow in getobjname MISC lua-users.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Re: CVE-2020-15889 MISC lua-users.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Fixed bug of old finalized objects in the GC · lua/lua@127e7a6 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, 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)
  • 900019 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for lua 5.3.5
  • 902918 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for lua (2655)
  • 904865 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for nmap (12395)
  • 905098 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for nmap (12594)
  • 905112 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for lua (12560)
  • 906139 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for lua (2655-1)
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