Vulnerability CVE-2020-15888
Published: 2020-07-21   Modified: 2020-07-22

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-120

 (Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
LUA -> LUA 

 References:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00053.html
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00054.html
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00071.html
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00079.html
https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/6298903e35217ab69c279056f925fb72900ce0b7
https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/eb41999461b6f428186c55abd95f4ce1a76217d5
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