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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-24370: Security patch for lua53 (ALAS-2020-1492)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-24370: Security patch for lua53 (ALAS-2020-1492)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/17/2020
Created
09/19/2020
Added
09/18/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

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)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-lua53
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-lua53-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-lua53-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-lua53-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-lua53-static

References

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