LuaJIT — the high-performance JIT-based implementation of the Lua language — has a serious stack-buffer-overflow vulnerability (CVE-2024-25176) in the number-formatting code that affects releases through 2.1 and related OpenResty luajit2 builds. Microsoft’s initial advisory notes that the Azure...
LuaJIT through 2.1 and OpenRusty luajit2 before v2.1-20240314 contain a vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2024-25177) that can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by triggering an unsinking of the IR_FSTORE operation when a NULL metatable is encountered, allowing an attacker to crash or otherwise make...
CVE-2024-25178 is a real-world reminder that even tiny pieces of high‑performance open‑source software can become a critical link in the supply‑chain security story — Microsoft has publicly attested that Azure Linux includes the vulnerable LuaJIT component, but that attestation is a...