Waxlab wax up to 0.9-3 Lua Library buffer overflow

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Waxlab wax up to 0.9-3. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Lua Library. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-31714. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Waxlab wax up to 0.9-3. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Lua Library. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Waxlab wax v.0.9-3 and before allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via the Lua library component.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-31714 since 04/05/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Waxlab

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• wax

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• 0.9-3

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