Denial of service in LuaJIT



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2020-24372
CWE-ID CWE-125
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 LuaJIT
Other software / Other software solutions

Vendor siddhesh (Siddhesh Poyarekar)

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Out-of-bounds read

EUVDB-ID: #VU45994

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-24372

CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

LuaJIT through 2.1.0-beta3 has an out-of-bounds read in lj_err_run in lj_err.c.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

LuaJIT: 2.1.0

CPE2.3 External links

https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/603


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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