RHEL 9 : lua (RHSA-2022:7329)

high Nessus Plugin ID 166883

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for lua.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7329 advisory.

The lua packages provide support for Lua, a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language.

Security Fix(es):

* lua: heap buffer overflow in luaG_errormsg() in ldebug.c due to uncontrolled recursion in error handling (CVE-2022-33099)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL lua package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7329.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?52087ac9

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7329

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2104427

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166883

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7329.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/3/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2022-33099

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:lua-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:lua-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:lua, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-33099

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2022:7329