Bug 737912 (CVE-2020-24372)

Summary:	<dev-lang/luajit-2.1.0_beta3_p20220127: Out of bounds read vulnerability (CVE-2020-24372)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	John Helmert III <ajak>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	williamh
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/603
Whiteboard:	B4 [noglsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John Helmert III archtester

2020-08-18 15:55:39 UTC

CVE-2020-24372:

LuaJIT through 2.1.0-beta3 has an out-of-bounds read in lj_err_run in lj_err.c.

Looks like a pair of patches fix this, according to the issue:

https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commit/12ab596997b9cb27846a5b254d11230c3f9c50c8
https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commit/e296f56b825c688c3530a981dc6b495d972f3d01


Maintainer, please apply these patches or advise if they are not sufficient.

Comment 1 Rafael Martins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-08-18 19:49:02 UTC

patches require some backport work, will apply them asap

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2021-01-10 16:41:34 UTC

ping

Comment 3 John Helmert III archtester

2022-08-14 23:29:50 UTC

Patches made their way into our releases a while ago, once beta3 snapshots were added. This is only an OOB read, in a language interpreter, so no GLSA. All done!