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CVE-2021-44964

Published: 14 March 2022

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.3

Score breakdown

Status

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

xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
lua5.2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
focal Not vulnerable
(code not present)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
lunar Not vulnerable
(code not present)
mantic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Needs triage

upstream Needs triage

xenial Needs triage

lua5.3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
focal Not vulnerable
(code not present)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
lunar Not vulnerable
(code not present)
mantic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Needs triage

lua5.4
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Not vulnerable
(5.4.4)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(5.4.4)
lunar Not vulnerable
(5.4.4)
mantic Not vulnerable
(5.4.4)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/0bfc572e51d9035a615ef6e9523f736c9ffa8e57
upstream: https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/066e0f93c4901e601d93e31fb700f8f66f95feb8
upstream: https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/cf613cdc6fa367257fc61c256f63d917350858b5
upstream: https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/86ec152433baf8daf39f03a59c6842cbe33a179d
upstream: https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/597a53bbc681089d85b082b46c2e2428dec43b86
lua50
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal Needs triage

impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Needs triage

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.3
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H