openSUSE 15 Security Update : lua51-luajit (SUSE-SU-2025:02886-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 252927

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02886-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-25176: Fixed stack-buffer-overflow in lj_strfmt_wfnum in lj_strfmt_num.c (bsc#1246077)
- CVE-2024-25177: Fixed unsinking of IR_FSTORE for NULL metatable (bsc#1246078)
- CVE-2024-25178: Fixed ut-of-bounds read in the stack-overflow handler in lj_state.c (bsc#1246079)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 lua51-luajit and / or lua51-luajit-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 252927

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02886-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 8/20/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-25176

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-25176, CVE-2024-25177, CVE-2024-25178

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02886-1

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