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+ roberto@
 
Hello. May I claim for assign a CVE ID to this report? 
 
Thank you in advance,
Knyzhov Nikita
 
21.02.2022, 21:38, "Roberto Ierusalimschy" <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>:
    I found a heap a heap buffer overflow on read in luaH_getshortstr
    function.
     
    Lua version:
    Lua 5.4.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2022 Lua.org, PUC-Rio (commit
    5d708c3f9cae12820e415d4f89c9eacbe2ab964b)
     
    How to reprocude:
    ----------
    1. git clone https://github.com/lua/lua -q
    2. cd lua/ && make -j$(nproc)
    3. echo -n
    "bG9jYWwgdSxfLE4sXyx3LE4sZCxXCmZ1bmN0aW9uIGMoRSxMLGwsUyxULHUsTSxULGwsaCxoLHUsdSxsLGgsaCx1LHUsTSx1LHUsdSxsLGgsaCxsKXM9cyBsb2NhbAllLGUsXyxfLE4sZSxzMCxOLFYsXyBmdW5jdGlvbiBjKGIsbClpLHM9TiBsb2NhbCBjIGxvY2FsIF9FTlY8Y29uc3Q+ID0wIG89MCBmdW5jdGlvbiBlKCllbmQ7ZSIicmV0dXJuIGVuZDtlMCxhLHcscyxzLHM9IiJyZXR1cm4jYyIiZW5kO2VlPSIicmV0dXJuDGMiIg=="
    | base64 -d > poc
    4. ./lua ./poc
    ----------


Thanks for the report. It seems there is a 'luaK_exp2anyregup' missing
in 'singlevar':

--- a/lparser.c
+++ b/lparser.c
@@ -468,6 +468,7 @@ static void singlevar (LexState *ls, expdesc *var) {
     expdesc key;
     singlevaraux(fs, ls->envn, var, 1); /* get environment variable */
     lua_assert(var->k != VVOID); /* this one must exist */
+ luaK_exp2anyregup(fs, var); /* but could be a constant */
     codestring(&key, varname); /* key is variable name */
     luaK_indexed(fs, var, &key); /* env[varname] */
   }


How did you find this bug?

-- Roberto