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Lua through 5.4.0 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.

🗓️ 25 Sep 2020 07:00:00Reported by MicrosoftType 
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Lua up to five point four zero mishandles stack resizing with garbage collection, causing heap overflow.

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18 Feb 2026 22:22Current
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CVSS 26.8
CVSS 3.18.8
EPSS0.01248
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