Debian DLA-2381-1 : lua5.3 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 140807

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in lua5.3, a simple, extensible, embeddable programming language whereby a a negation overflow and segmentation fault could be triggered in getlocal and setlocal, as demonstrated by getlocal(3,2^31).

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 5.3.3-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your lua5.3 packages.

For the detailed security status of lua5.3 please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/lua5.3

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 140807

File Name: debian_DLA-2381.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/28/2020

Updated: 2/20/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-24370

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:liblua5.3-0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:liblua5.3-0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:liblua5.3-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lua5.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-24370

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