Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package lua (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LUA-2607034
- published11 Apr 2022
- disclosed8 Apr 2022
Introduced: 8 Apr 2022
CVE-2022-28805 (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.
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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-28805
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RJNJ66IFDUKWJJZXHGOLRGIA3HWWC36R/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UHYZOEFDVLVAD6EEP4CDW6DNONIVVHPA/
- https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/1f3c6f4534c6411313361697d98d1145a1f030fa
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RJNJ66IFDUKWJJZXHGOLRGIA3HWWC36R/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UHYZOEFDVLVAD6EEP4CDW6DNONIVVHPA/
- https://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2022-02/msg00001.html
- https://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2022-02/msg00070.html
- https://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2022-04/msg00009.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23