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Mageia 7 MGASA-2020-0190: Critical Crawl Remote Code Execution

mageia
Calendar Grey May 5, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to crawl packages fix a critical remote code execution vulnerability associated with lua loadstring, significantly improving Mageia's security posture.
Updated crawl packages fix security vulnerability crawl 0.24.0 and earlier are subject to possible remote code evaluation with lua loadstring (CVE-2020-11722)

Summary

Updated crawl packages fix security vulnerability
crawl 0.24.0 and earlier are subject to possible remote code evaluation with lua loadstring (CVE-2020-11722).
This update fixes it, also updating crawl from version 0.23.2 to 0.24.1, with the following main gameplay changes:
* Vampire species simplified * Thrown weapons streamlined * Fedhas reimagined * Sif Muna reworked

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26552

- - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crawl/crawl/0.24.1/crawl-ref/docs/changelog.txt

- https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commits/a250c9d538d3db384407f7e61470e8ec65ad5b83

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11722

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software patch remote code execution crawl update Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/crawl-0.24.1-2.ga250c9d538.1.mga7

Severity
critical
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Critical

Publication date: 05 May 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0190.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-11722

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software patch remote code execution crawl update Mageia

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