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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15888

Lua through 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between stack resizes and garbage collection, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, heap-based buffer...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 lua5.4

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.4.1-1"}]}]

Debian:13 lua5.4

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.4.1-1"}]}]

Debian:14 lua5.4

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.4.1-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org