DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4540

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-4540
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4540.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4540
Upstream
Published
2023-09-05T08:15:40.017Z
Modified
2025-11-20T10:16:45.329230Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Daurnimator lua-http library allows Excessive Allocation and a denial of service (DoS) attack to be executed by sending a properly crafted request to the server. Such a request causes the program to enter an infinite loop. This issue affects lua-http: all versions before commit ddab283.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / lua-http

Package

Name
lua-http
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lua-http?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.4-1
0.4-2
0.4-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / lua-http

Package

Name
lua-http
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lua-http?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.4-1
0.4-2
0.4-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / lua-http

Package

Name
lua-http
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lua-http?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / lua-http

Package

Name
lua-http
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lua-http?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}