Lua 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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2019-6706 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
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CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Attack Vector | Network |
Attack Complexity | Low |
Privileges Required | None |
User Interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | None |
Integrity Impact | None |
Availability Impact | High |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Virtualization 4 | lua | Under investigation |
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5 | lua | Under investigation |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | lua | Under investigation |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | lua | Under investigation |
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 | ceph | Under investigation |