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GHSA-4f5v-4r5w-g4x3
GHSA-4f5v-4r5w-g4x3
PUBLISHED
CVSS 8.800000190734863 HIGH
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 24, 2022
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.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
8.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Timeline
- May 24, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00053.html url
- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00054.html url
- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00071.html url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15888 advisory
- https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/6298903e35217ab69c279056f925fb72900ce0b7 url
- https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/eb41999461b6f428186c55abd95f4ce1a76217d5 url
- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00079.html url