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Gentoo: GLSA-202305-24 Moderate: Detected Various Security Flaws in Python

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Calendar Grey May 3, 2023
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The Gentoo GLSA 202305-23 highlights severe Lua vulnerabilities in versions before 5.4.3, allowing arbitrary code execution and application compromise
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Lua, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Lua. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo code execution multiple issues update recommendation normal severity Lua

Resolution

All Lua 5.1 users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r200"
All Lua 5.3 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/lua-5.2.3"
All Lua 5.4 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/lua-5.4.4-r103"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-5461 https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-5461 [ 2 ] CVE-2021-44647 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44647 [ 3 ] CVE-2022-28805 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28805

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-23
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Lua: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: May 03, 2023
Bugs: #837521, #831053, #520480
ID: 202305-23

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo code execution multiple issues update recommendation normal severity Lua

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Lua, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution.

Background

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- dev-lang/lua:0 * dev-lang/lua:5.1 <5.1.5-r200:5.1 >=5.1.5-r200:5.1 dev-lang/lua:5.2 <5.2.3:5.2 >=5.2.3:5.2 dev-lang/lua:5.4 <5.4.4-r103:5.4 >=5.4.4-r103:5.4

Impact

===== Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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