Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU45994

#VU45994 Out-of-bounds read in LuaJIT - CVE-2020-24372

Published: August 17, 2020 / Updated: August 25, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU45994

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 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

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
LuaJIT

Software vendor:
siddhesh (Siddhesh Poyarekar)

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.

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