Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package lua5.1  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-LUA51-611027
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed21 Jul 2020

Introduced: 21 Jul 2020

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream lua5.1 package and not the lua5.1 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.