vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2023-4540: lua-http -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 5, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 27, 2025

Description

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Daurnimator lua-http library allows Excessive Allocation and a denial of service (DoS) attack to be executed by sending a properly crafted request to the server.
Such a request causes the program to enter an infinite loop.

This issue affects lua-http: all versions before commit ddab283.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
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