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.
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describes (1)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2020-15888US | high8.8 | — | ||
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. | ||||
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references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00053.htmlADVISORY
- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00054.htmlADVISORY
- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00071.htmlADVISORY
- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00079.htmlADVISORY
- https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/6298903e35217ab69c279056f925fb72900ce0b7ADVISORY
- https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/eb41999461b6f428186c55abd95f4ce1a76217d5ADVISORY
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15888WEB
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