Bug 2237419 (CVE-2023-4540)

Summary:	CVE-2023-4540 lua-http: lua-http library allows Excessive Allocation and a denial of service (DoS) attack
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Description Avinash Hanwate 2023-09-05 12:22:02 UTC

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Daurnimator HTTP Library for Lua allows Excessive Allocation.This issue affects HTTP Library for Lua: before commit ddab283.



https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/ddab2835c583d45dec62680ca8d3cbde55e0bae6

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2023-09-05 12:22:25 UTC

Created lua-http tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2237421]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2237420]