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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LUASTATIC-2607131
  • published11 Apr 2022
  • disclosed8 Apr 2022

Introduced: 8 Apr 2022

CVE-2022-28805  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

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

singlevar in lparser.c in Lua from (including) 5.4.0 up to (excluding) 5.4.4 lacks a certain luaK_exp2anyregup call, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read that might affect a system that compiles untrusted Lua code.