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openSUSE Leap 15.2 Security Update: 2021:0962-1 Moderate Lua53 Memory Issue

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Calendar Grey July 2, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The lua53 patch addresses two specific problems; refer to advisory openSUSE-SU-2021:0962-1 for comprehensive information on the correction and impacted items.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for lua53 fixes the following issues:

Update to version 5.3.6:

- CVE-2020-24371: lgc.c mishandles the interaction between barriers and

the sweep phase, leading to a memory access violation involving

collectgarbage (bsc#1175449)

- CVE-2020-24370: ldebug.c allows a negation overflow and segmentation

fault in getlocal and setlocal (bsc#1175448)

- Long brackets with a huge number of '=' overflow some internal buffer

arithmetic.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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-2021-962=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

liblua5_3-5-5.3.6-lp152.5.3.1

liblua5_3-5-debuginfo-5.3.6-lp152.5.3.1

lua53-5.3.6-lp152.5.3.1

lua53-debuginfo-5.3.6-lp152.5.3.1

lua53-debugsource-5.3.6-lp152.5.3.1

lua53-devel-5.3.6-lp152.5.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

lua53-doc-5.3.6-lp152.5.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

liblua5_3-5-32bit-5.3.6-lp152.5.3.1

liblua5_3-5-32bit-debuginfo-5.3.6-lp152.5.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24370.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24371.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175448

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175449

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0962-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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