Security update for nim SUSE Patch security@suse.de SUSE Security Team openSUSE-SU-2022:10095-1 Final 1 1 2022-08-24T02:33:29Z current 2022-08-24T02:33:29Z 2022-08-24T02:33:29Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf.pl 2017-02-24T01:00:00Z Security update for nim This update for nim fixes the following issues: Includes upstream security fixes for: * (boo#1175333, CVE-2020-15693) httpClient is vulnerable to a CR-LF injection * (boo#1175334, CVE-2020-15692) mishandle of argument to browsers.openDefaultBrowser * (boo#1175332, CVE-2020-15694) httpClient.get().contentLength() fails to properly validate the server response * (boo#1192712, CVE-2021-41259) null byte accepted in getContent function, leading to URI validation bypass * (boo#1185948, CVE-2021-29495) stdlib httpClient does not validate peer certificates by default * (boo#1185085, CVE-2021-21374) Improper verification of the SSL/TLS certificate * (boo#1185084, CVE-2021-21373) 'nimble refresh' falls back to a non-TLS URL in case of error * (boo#1185083, CVE-2021-21372) doCmd can be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands * (boo#1181705, CVE-2020-15690) Standard library asyncftpclient lacks a check for newline character Following nim tools now work as expected: * nim_dbg is now installed. * nim-gdb can be successfully launched as it finds and loads nim-gdb.py correctly under gdb. * nimble package manager stores package information per user. * compiler package can be found and used, as it may be required by other packages. Update to 1.6.6 * standard library use consistent styles for variable names so it can be used in projects which force a consistent style with --styleCheck:usages option. * ARC/ORC are now considerably faster at method dispatching, bringing its performance back on the level of the refc memory management. * Full changelog: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2022/05/05/version-166-released.html - Previous updates and changelogs: * 1.6.4: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2022/02/08/version-164-released.html * 1.6.2: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/12/17/version-162-released.html * 1.6.0: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/10/19/version-160-released.html * 1.4.8: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/05/25/version-148-released.html * 1.4.6: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/04/15/versions-146-and-1212-released.html * 1.4.4: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/02/23/versions-144-and-1210-released.html * 1.4.2: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/12/01/version-142-released.html * 1.4.0: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/16/version-140-released.html Update to 1.2.16 * oids: switch from PRNG to random module * nimc.rst: fix table markup * nimRawSetjmp: support Windows * correctly enable chronos * bigints are not supposed to work on 1.2.x * disable nimpy * misc bugfixes * fixes a 'mixin' statement handling regression [backport:1.2 Update 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 - Enable the full testsuite in the %check section * Add build dependencies to run the testsuite * Whitelists a few tests that are not passing yet Update to version 1.0.2: * See https://nim-lang.org/blog.html for details - Update dependencies (based on changes by Federico Ceratto The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). openSUSE-2022-10095 Copyright SUSE LLC under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/HM5F2H5AWO4WRQSTOWMODGKMXAHHBVRH/ E-Mail link for openSUSE-SU-2022:10095-1 https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175332 SUSE Bug 1175332 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175333 SUSE Bug 1175333 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175334 SUSE Bug 1175334 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181705 SUSE Bug 1181705 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185083 SUSE Bug 1185083 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185084 SUSE Bug 1185084 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185085 SUSE Bug 1185085 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185948 SUSE Bug 1185948 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192712 SUSE Bug 1192712 https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15690/ SUSE CVE CVE-2020-15690 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15692/ SUSE CVE CVE-2020-15692 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15693/ SUSE CVE CVE-2020-15693 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15694/ SUSE CVE CVE-2020-15694 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21372/ SUSE CVE CVE-2021-21372 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21373/ SUSE CVE CVE-2021-21373 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21374/ SUSE CVE CVE-2021-21374 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29495/ SUSE CVE CVE-2021-29495 page https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-41259/ SUSE CVE CVE-2021-41259 page SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3 openSUSE Leap 15.3 nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 as a component of SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3 nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 as a component of openSUSE Leap 15.3 In Nim before 1.2.6, the standard library asyncftpclient lacks a check for whether a message contains a newline character. CVE-2020-15690 SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 openSUSE Leap 15.3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 critical 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/HM5F2H5AWO4WRQSTOWMODGKMXAHHBVRH/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15690.html CVE-2020-15690 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181705 SUSE Bug 1181705 In Nim 1.2.4, the standard library browsers mishandles the URL argument to browsers.openDefaultBrowser. This argument can be a local file path that will be opened in the default explorer. An attacker can pass one argument to the underlying open command to execute arbitrary registered system commands. CVE-2020-15692 SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 openSUSE Leap 15.3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 critical 10 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/HM5F2H5AWO4WRQSTOWMODGKMXAHHBVRH/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15692.html CVE-2020-15692 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175334 SUSE Bug 1175334 In Nim 1.2.4, the standard library httpClient is vulnerable to a CR-LF injection in the target URL. An injection is possible if the attacker controls any part of the URL provided in a call (such as httpClient.get or httpClient.post), the User-Agent header value, or custom HTTP header names or values. CVE-2020-15693 SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 openSUSE Leap 15.3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 moderate 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/HM5F2H5AWO4WRQSTOWMODGKMXAHHBVRH/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15693.html CVE-2020-15693 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175333 SUSE Bug 1175333 In Nim 1.2.4, the standard library httpClient fails to properly validate the server response. For example, httpClient.get().contentLength() does not raise any error if a malicious server provides a negative Content-Length. CVE-2020-15694 SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 openSUSE Leap 15.3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 critical 5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/HM5F2H5AWO4WRQSTOWMODGKMXAHHBVRH/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15694.html CVE-2020-15694 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175332 SUSE Bug 1175332 Nimble is a package manager for the Nim programming language. In Nim release version before versions 1.2.10 and 1.4.4, Nimble doCmd is used in different places and can be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands. An attacker can craft a malicious entry in the packages.json package list to trigger code execution. CVE-2021-21372 SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 openSUSE Leap 15.3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 important 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/HM5F2H5AWO4WRQSTOWMODGKMXAHHBVRH/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21372.html CVE-2021-21372 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185083 SUSE Bug 1185083 Nimble is a package manager for the Nim programming language. In Nim release versions before versions 1.2.10 and 1.4.4, "nimble refresh" fetches a list of Nimble packages over HTTPS by default. In case of error it falls back to a non-TLS URL http://irclogs.nim-lang.org/packages.json. An attacker able to perform MitM can deliver a modified package list containing malicious software packages. If the packages are installed and used the attack escalates to untrusted code execution. CVE-2021-21373 SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 openSUSE Leap 15.3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 moderate 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/HM5F2H5AWO4WRQSTOWMODGKMXAHHBVRH/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21373.html CVE-2021-21373 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185084 SUSE Bug 1185084 Nimble is a package manager for the Nim programming language. In Nim release versions before versions 1.2.10 and 1.4.4, "nimble refresh" fetches a list of Nimble packages over HTTPS without full verification of the SSL/TLS certificate due to the default setting of httpClient. An attacker able to perform MitM can deliver a modified package list containing malicious software packages. If the packages are installed and used the attack escalates to untrusted code execution. CVE-2021-21374 SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 openSUSE Leap 15.3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 important 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/HM5F2H5AWO4WRQSTOWMODGKMXAHHBVRH/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21374.html CVE-2021-21374 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185085 SUSE Bug 1185085 Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. In Nim standard library before 1.4.2, httpClient SSL/TLS certificate verification was disabled by default. Users can upgrade to version 1.4.2 to receive a patch or, as a workaround, set "verifyMode = CVerifyPeer" as documented. CVE-2021-29495 SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 openSUSE Leap 15.3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 important 5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/HM5F2H5AWO4WRQSTOWMODGKMXAHHBVRH/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29495.html CVE-2021-29495 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185948 SUSE Bug 1185948 ** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: None. Reason: This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority. Notes: None. CVE-2021-41259 SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 openSUSE Leap 15.3:nim-1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1 important 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/HM5F2H5AWO4WRQSTOWMODGKMXAHHBVRH/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-41259.html CVE-2021-41259 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192712 SUSE Bug 1192712