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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2019-3706-01 Moderate: Lua Security Update

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An update for lua is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The lua packages provide support for Lua, a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language.
Security Fix(es):
* lua: use-after-free in lua_upvaluejoin in lapi.c resulting in denial of service (CVE-2019-6706)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service software update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux lua

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6706 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
aarch64: lua-5.3.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm lua-debuginfo-5.3.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm lua-debugsource-5.3.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm lua-libs-debuginfo-5.3.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: lua-5.3.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm lua-debuginfo-5.3.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm lua-debugsource-5.3.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm lua-libs-debuginfo-5.3.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: lua-5.3.4-11.el8.s390x.rpm lua-debuginfo-5.3.4-11.el8.s390x.rpm lua-debugsource-5.3.4-11.el8.s390x.rpm lua-libs-debuginfo-5.3.4-11.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: lua-5.3.4-11.el8.x86_64.rpm lua-debuginfo-5.3.4-11.el8.x86_64.rpm lua-debugsource-5.3.4-11.el8.x86_64.rpm lua-libs-debuginfo-5.3.4-11.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: lua-5.3.4-11.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: lua-debuginfo-5.3.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm lua-debugsource-5.3.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm lua-libs-5.3.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm lua-libs-debuginfo-5.3.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: lua-debuginfo-5.3.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm lua-debugsource-5.3.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm lua-libs-5.3.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm lua-libs-debuginfo-5.3.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: lua-debuginfo-5.3.4-11.el8.s390x.rpm lua-debugsource-5.3.4-11.el8.s390x.rpm lua-libs-5.3.4-11.el8.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3706-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3706
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for lua is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service software update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux lua

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1670019 - CVE-2019-6706 lua: use-after-free in lua_upvaluejoin in lapi.c resulting in denial of service

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