oss-security - Re: Lua 5.1.4

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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:10:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Lua 5.1.4

Note that the typical CVE criterion for flagging language-interpreter bugs
is that they should be exploitable/reachable through the language API in
reasonable scenarios for the application.  Otherwise, it's the application
developer attacking himself/herself.  I know nothing about Lua so can't
interpret items like #6 and #8, whereas you could imagine malicious input
being processed by unpack().

- Steve

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