Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package lua  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
2.23% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LUA-10077599
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed21 Jul 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-15889  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. Lua 5.4.0 has a getobjname heap-based buffer over-read because youngcollection in lgc.c uses markold for an insufficient number of list members.