Name | CVE-2023-4540 |
Description | Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Daurnimator lua-http library allows Excessive Allocation and a denial of service (DoS) attack to be executed by sending a properly crafted request to the server. This issue affects lua-http: all versions before commit ddab283. |
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 | 1051511 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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lua-http (PTS) | sid, trixie, bookworm, bullseye | 0.4-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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lua-http | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | 1051511 |
Notes
[bookworm] - lua-http <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - lua-http <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - lua-http <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
Fixed by: https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6