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Rocky Linux: CVE-2021-44964: lua (RLSA-2023-0957)

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Rocky Linux: CVE-2021-44964: lua (RLSA-2023-0957)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/14/2022
Created
03/13/2024
Added
03/12/2024
Modified
03/12/2024

Description

Use after free in garbage collector and finalizer of lgc.c in Lua interpreter 5.4.0~5.4.3 allows attackers to perform Sandbox Escape via a crafted script file.

Solution(s)

  • rocky-upgrade-lua
  • rocky-upgrade-lua-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-lua-debugsource
  • rocky-upgrade-lua-devel
  • rocky-upgrade-lua-libs
  • rocky-upgrade-lua-libs-debuginfo

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