openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:2196-1 Moderate lua53 Memory Access Issues
opensuse
July 10, 2021
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.
Topics Covered
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 15.3:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-2196=1
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):
liblua5_3-5-5.3.6-3.6.1
liblua5_3-5-debuginfo-5.3.6-3.6.1
lua53-5.3.6-3.6.1
lua53-debuginfo-5.3.6-3.6.1
lua53-debugsource-5.3.6-3.6.1
lua53-devel-5.3.6-3.6.1
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch):
lua53-doc-5.3.6-3.6.1
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64):
liblua5_3-5-32bit-5.3.6-3.6.1
liblua5_3-5-32bit-debuginfo-5.3.6-3.6.1
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
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2196-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.3
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Topics Covered
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