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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:0618-1 Moderate: Nim Memory Crash

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Calendar Grey April 25, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest openSUSE update addresses vulnerabilities and memory management concerns within the nim package. Discover more details!
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for nim fixes the following issues:

num was updated to version 1.2.12:

* Fixed GC crash resulting from inlining of the memory allocation procs

* Fixed ???incorrect raises effect for $(NimNode)??? (#17454)

From version 1.2.10:

* Fixed ???JS backend doesn???t handle float->int type conversion ???

(#8404)

* Fixed ???The ???try except??? not work when the ???OSError: Too many

open files??? error occurs!??? (#15925)

* Fixed ???Nim emits #line 0 C preprocessor directives with

???debugger:native, with ICE in gcc-10??? (#15942)

* Fixed ???tfuturevar fails when activated??? (#9695)

* Fixed ???nre.escapeRe is not gcsafe??? (#16103)

* Fixed ??????Error: internal error: genRecordFieldAux??? - in the

???version-1-4??? branch??? (#16069)

* Fixed ???-d:fulldebug switch does not compile with gc:arc??? (#16214)

* Fixed ???osLastError may randomly raise defect and crash??? (#16359)

* Fixed ???generic importc proc???s...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-618=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

nim-1.2.12-lp152.2.3.1

nim-debuginfo-1.2.12-lp152.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21372.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21373.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21374.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185083

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185084

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185085

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0618-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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