CVE-2020-15888

Published: 21/07/2020 Updated: 16/05/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8

VMScore: 605

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Lua up to and including 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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Debian Bug report logs - #972101 CVE-2020-15888 Package: lua54; Maintainer for lua54 is Debian Lua Team <pkg-lua-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for lua54 is src:lua54 (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 18:12:04 UTC Severity: important Tags: secur ...

Lua through 540 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 ...

CWE-125 CWE-787 CWE-416 http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00054.html https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/6298903e35217ab69c279056f925fb72900ce0b7 http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00079.html https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/eb41999461b6f428186c55abd95f4ce1a76217d5 http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00071.html http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00053.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972101 https://nvd.nist.gov

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