CentOS 9 : lua-5.4.2-7.el9

high Nessus Plugin ID 191280

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for lua.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the lua-5.4.2-7.el9 build changelog.

- An issue in the component luaG_runerror of Lua v5.4.4 and below leads to a heap-buffer overflow when a recursive error occurs. (CVE-2022-33099)

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 CentOS 9 Stream lua package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=25466

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 191280

File Name: centos9_lua-5_4_2-7.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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: cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:lua-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:lua, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:lua-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:lua-static

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-33099