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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2020-24370) ELSA-2021-4510: lua security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2020-24370) ELSA-2021-4510: lua security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/17/2020
Created
11/19/2021
Added
11/17/2021
Modified
11/17/2021

Description

ldebug.c in Lua 5.4.0 allows a negation overflow and segmentation fault in getlocal and setlocal, as demonstrated by getlocal(3,2^31).

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-lua
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-lua-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-lua-libs

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