Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package lua (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published25 Jan 2022
- disclosed11 Jan 2022
Introduced: 11 Jan 2022
CVE-2021-44647 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream lua package and not the lua package as distributed by RHEL.
Lua v5.4.3 and above are affected by SEGV by type confusion in funcnamefromcode function in ldebug.c which can cause a local denial of service.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44647
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3EMGAQ5Y6GXJLY4K5DUOOEQT4MZ4J4F/
- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2021-11/msg00195.html
- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2021-11/msg00204.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-44647
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3EMGAQ5Y6GXJLY4K5DUOOEQT4MZ4J4F/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23