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CVE-2021-44647

Published: 11 January 2022

Lua v5.4.3 and above are affected by SEGV by type confusion in funcnamefromcode function in ldebug.c which can cause a local denial of service.

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
possibly introduced by
7af27ef59da4051914d93d8b63efac663b64765a
mdeslaur
issue is specific to Lua 5.4 only and fixed in 5.4.4.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
lua5.1
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Ignored
(end of life)
lunar Not vulnerable
(code not present)
bionic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
focal Not vulnerable
(code not present)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Not vulnerable
(code not present)
upstream Not vulnerable
(code not present)
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
jammy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
lua5.2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Ignored
(end of life)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
lunar Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
trusty Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
xenial Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
bionic Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
upstream Needs triage

hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
focal Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
jammy Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
lua5.3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
focal Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
lunar Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
xenial Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
lua5.4
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Not vulnerable
(5.4.4-1)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(5.4.4-3)
lunar Not vulnerable
(5.4.4-3)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (5.4.4)
xenial Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

lua50
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
focal Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
lunar Does not exist

xenial Not vulnerable
(5.4 only)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H