opensuse-su-2021:0618-1
Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse
Published
2021-04-25 18:05
Modified
2021-04-25 18:05
Summary
Security update for nim

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for nim
Description of the patch
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 don’t work (breaking lots of vmops procs for js)” (#16428) * Fixed “Concept: codegen ignores parameter passing” (#16897) * Fixed “{.push exportc.} interacts with anonymous functions” (#16967) * Fixed “memory allocation during {.global.} init breaks GC” (#17085) * Fixed 'Nimble arbitrary code execution for specially crafted package metadata' + https://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-rg9f-w24h-962p + (boo#1185083, CVE-2021-21372) * Fixed 'Nimble falls back to insecure http url when fetching packages' + https://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-8w52-r35x-rgp8 + (boo#1185084, CVE-2021-21373) * Fixed 'Nimble fails to validate certificates due to insecure httpClient defaults' + https://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-c2wm-v66h-xhxx + (boo#1185085, CVE-2021-21374) from version 1.2.8 * Fixed “Defer and –gc:arc” (#15071) * Fixed “Issue with –gc:arc at compile time” (#15129) * Fixed “Nil check on each field fails in generic function” (#15101) * Fixed “[strscans] scanf doesn’t match a single character with $+ if it’s the end of the string” (#15064) * Fixed “Crash and incorrect return values when using readPasswordFromStdin on Windows.” (#15207) * Fixed “Inconsistent unsigned -> signed RangeDefect usage across integer sizes” (#15210) * Fixed “toHex results in RangeDefect exception when used with large uint64” (#15257) * Fixed “Mixing ‘return’ with expressions is allowed in 1.2” (#15280) * Fixed “proc execCmdEx doesn’t work with -d:useWinAnsi” (#14203) * Fixed “memory corruption in tmarshall.nim” (#9754) * Fixed “Wrong number of variables” (#15360) * Fixed “defer doesnt work with block, break and await” (#15243) * Fixed “Sizeof of case object is incorrect. Showstopper” (#15516) * Fixed “Mixing ‘return’ with expressions is allowed in 1.2” (#15280) * Fixed “regression(1.0.2 => 1.0.4) VM register messed up depending on unrelated context” (#15704) from version 1.2.6 * Fixed “The pegs module doesn’t work with generics!” (#14718) * Fixed “[goto exceptions] {.noReturn.} pragma is not detected in a case expression” (#14458) * Fixed “[exceptions:goto] C compiler error with dynlib pragma calling a proc” (#14240) * Fixed “Nim source archive install: ‘install.sh’ fails with error: cp: cannot stat ‘bin/nim-gdb’: No such file or directory” (#14748) * Fixed “Stropped identifiers don’t work as field names in tuple literals” (#14911) * Fixed “uri.decodeUrl crashes on incorrectly formatted input” (#14082) * Fixed “odbcsql module has some wrong integer types” (#9771) * Fixed “[ARC] Compiler crash declaring a finalizer proc directly in ‘new’” (#15044) * Fixed “code with named arguments in proc of winim/com can not been compiled” (#15056) * Fixed “javascript backend produces javascript code with syntax error in object syntax” (#14534) * Fixed “[ARC] SIGSEGV when calling a closure as a tuple field in a seq” (#15038) * Fixed “Compiler crashes when using string as object variant selector with else branch” (#14189) * Fixed “Constructing a uint64 range on a 32-bit machine leads to incorrect codegen” (#14616) Update to version 1.2.2: * See https://nim-lang.org/blog.html for details Update to version 1.0.2: * See https://nim-lang.org/blog.html for details
Patchnames
openSUSE-2021-618
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