| Name | CVE-2020-15888 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 972101 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| lua5.4 (PTS) | bullseye | 5.4.2-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 5.4.4-3+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 5.4.7-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lua5.4 | source | (unstable) | 5.4.1-1 | 972101 |
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