CVE-2020-15888 – Lua through 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between stack resizes and ga

Lua through 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between stack resizes and garbage collection, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, heap-based buffer over-read, or use-after-free.

 

Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15888

Reference (s):

• http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00053.html
• http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00054.html
• http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00071.html
• http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00079.html
• https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/6298903e35217ab69c279056f925fb72900ce0b7