lgc.c in Lua 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between barriers and the sweep phase, leading to a memory access violation involving collectgarbage.

An update of the nmap package has been released.

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:2196-1 advisory.

  - ldebug.c in Lua 5.4.0 allows a negation overflow and segmentation fault in getlocal and setlocal, as     demonstrated by getlocal(3,2^31). (CVE-2020-24370)

  - lgc.c in Lua 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between barriers and the sweep phase, leading to a memory     access violation involving collectgarbage. (CVE-2020-24371)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:0962-1 advisory.

  - ldebug.c in Lua 5.4.0 allows a negation overflow and segmentation fault in getlocal and setlocal, as     demonstrated by getlocal(3,2^31). (CVE-2020-24370)

  - lgc.c in Lua 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between barriers and the sweep phase, leading to a memory     access violation involving collectgarbage. (CVE-2020-24371)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2196-1 advisory.

  - ldebug.c in Lua 5.4.0 allows a negation overflow and segmentation fault in getlocal and setlocal, as     demonstrated by getlocal(3,2^31). (CVE-2020-24370)

  - lgc.c in Lua 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between barriers and the sweep phase, leading to a memory     access violation involving collectgarbage. (CVE-2020-24371)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
203884	Photon OS 3.0: Nmap PHSA-2023-3.0-0601	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
203667	Photon OS 4.0: Nmap PHSA-2023-4.0-0517	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
203606	Photon OS 5.0: Nmap PHSA-2023-5.0-0036	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
151695	openSUSE 15 Security Update : lua53 (openSUSE-SU-2021:2196-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
151358	openSUSE 15 Security Update : lua53 (openSUSE-SU-2021:0962-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
151195	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : lua53 (SUSE-SU-2021:2196-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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