CVE-2020-15888: Buffer Overflow

July 21, 2020 (updated July 21, 2021)

Lua mishandles the interaction between stack resizes and garbage collection, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, heap-based buffer over-read, or use-after-free.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15888

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