MGASA-2020-0190 - Updated crawl packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 May 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0190.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2020-11722

Updated crawl packages fix security vulnerability

crawl 0.24.0 and earlier are subject to possible remote code evaluation
with lua loadstring (CVE-2020-11722).

This update fixes it, also updating crawl from version 0.23.2 to 0.24.1,
with the following main gameplay changes:

* Vampire species simplified
* Thrown weapons streamlined
* Fedhas reimagined
* Sif Muna reworked

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26552
- - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crawl/crawl/0.24.1/crawl-ref/docs/changelog.txt
- https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commits/a250c9d538d3db384407f7e61470e8ec65ad5b83
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-11722

SRPMS:
- 7/core/crawl-0.24.1-2.ga250c9d538.1.mga7

Mageia 2020-0190: crawl security update

Updated crawl packages fix security vulnerability crawl 0.24.0 and earlier are subject to possible remote code evaluation with lua loadstring (CVE-2020-11722)

Summary

Updated crawl packages fix security vulnerability
crawl 0.24.0 and earlier are subject to possible remote code evaluation with lua loadstring (CVE-2020-11722).
This update fixes it, also updating crawl from version 0.23.2 to 0.24.1, with the following main gameplay changes:
* Vampire species simplified * Thrown weapons streamlined * Fedhas reimagined * Sif Muna reworked

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26552

- - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crawl/crawl/0.24.1/crawl-ref/docs/changelog.txt

- https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commits/a250c9d538d3db384407f7e61470e8ec65ad5b83

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-11722

Resolution

MGASA-2020-0190 - Updated crawl packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 7/core/crawl-0.24.1-2.ga250c9d538.1.mga7

Severity
Publication date: 05 May 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0190.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-11722

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