CVE-2020-15945

Summary

CVECVE-2020-15945
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-24 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-04-20 18:39:00 UTC
DescriptionLua through 5.4.0 has a segmentation fault in changedline in ldebug.c (e.g., when called by luaG_traceexec) because it incorrectly expects that an oldpc value is always updated upon a return of the flow of control to a function.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Segmentation fault in changedline MISC lua-users.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Fixed bug: invalid 'oldpc' when returning to a function · lua/lua@a219564 · 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)
  • 900246 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for lua 5.3.5
  • 901374 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for lua (6671-1)
  • 903379 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for lua (2658)
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