RHEL 9 : lua (RHSA-2023:2582)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 175459

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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-2023:2582 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 overread (CVE-2022-28805)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Release Notes linked from 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-2023:2582.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 175459

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-2582.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/13/2023

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: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-28805

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:lua-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:lua-devel, 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: 5/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-28805

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2023:2582

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