vulnerability

Microsoft Windows: CVE-2021-45985: Mitre: CVE-2021-45985 Erroneous finalizer call in Lua leads to a heap-based buffer over-read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 14, 2023
Added
Apr 14, 2023
Modified
Oct 14, 2025

Description

In Lua 5.4.3, an erroneous finalizer called during a tail call leads to a heap-based buffer over-read.

Solutions

microsoft-windows-windows_10-21h2-kb5044273microsoft-windows-windows_10-22h2-kb5044273microsoft-windows-windows_11-22h2-kb5044285microsoft-windows-windows_11-23h2-kb5044285microsoft-windows-windows_11-24h2-kb5050009microsoft-windows-windows_server_2022-21h2-kb5044281microsoft-windows-windows_server_2022-22h2-kb5044281microsoft-windows-windows_server_2022-23h2-kb5044288microsoft-windows-windows_server_2025-24h2-kb5050009
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