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Mageia 8 MGASA-2023-0150 Critical: Squirrel Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2023
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MGASA-2023-0151 tackles a significant buffer overflow vulnerability in Acorn that could enable arbitrary code execution.
sqclass.cpp in Squirrel 3.1 allows an out-of-bounds read (in the core interpreter) that can lead to Code Execution

Summary

sqclass.cpp in Squirrel 3.1 allows an out-of-bounds read (in the core interpreter) that can lead to Code Execution. If a victim executes an attacker-controlled squirrel script, it is possible for the attacker to break out of the squirrel script sandbox even if all dangerous functionality such as File System functions has been disabled. An attacker might abuse this bug to target (for example) Cloud services that allow customization via SquirrelScripts, or distribute malware through video games that embed a Squirrel Engine. (CVE-2021-41556)
supertux has been rebuilt as it uses a bundled copy of squirrel.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30742

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/M3FQILX7UUEERSDPMZP3MKGTMY2E7ESU/

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-41556

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical code execution script execution Mageia supertux Squirrel

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/squirrel-3.2-1.mga8

- 8/core/supertux-0.6.2-4.2.mga8

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Publication date: 24 Apr 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0150.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-41556

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical code execution script execution Mageia supertux Squirrel

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