SB2021110953 - Denial of service in Lua interpreter
Published: November 9, 2021 Updated: February 28, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021110953
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43519)
CWE-ID: CWE-121 - Stack-based buffer overflow
CVSSv4: 8.7 [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]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the lua_resume() function of ldo.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted script file to he application, trigger a stack-based buffer overflow and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2021-11/msg00015.html
- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2021-10/msg00123.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C7XHFYHGSZKL53VCLSJSAJ6VMFGAIXKO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3EMGAQ5Y6GXJLY4K5DUOOEQT4MZ4J4F/