CVE-2020-24370 (GCVE-0-2020-24370)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-17 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 15:12
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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).
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
6 references
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