Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package lua  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-LUA-2428958
  • published17 Mar 2022
  • disclosed29 Nov 2021

Introduced: 29 Nov 2021

CVE-2021-44964  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream lua package and not the lua package as distributed by Centos.

Use after free in garbage collector and finalizer of lgc.c in Lua interpreter 5.4.0~5.4.3 allows attackers to perform Sandbox Escape via a crafted script file.