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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Lua vulnerabilities (USN-6916-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 204916

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6916-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Lua did not properly generate code when _ENV is constant. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary unstrusted lua code.
 (CVE-2022-28805)

 It was discovered that Lua did not properly handle C stack overflows during error handling. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-33099)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected liblua5.4-0, liblua5.4-dev and / or lua5.4 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6916-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 204916

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6916-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/31/2024

Updated: 7/31/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblua5.4-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblua5.4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lua5.4

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-28805, CVE-2022-33099

USN: 6916-1