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A lua security update has been released for Fedora 35.



SECURITY: Fedora 35 Update: lua-5.4.3-4.fc35


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-93f064549c
2022-01-29 06:37:20.624302
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Name : lua
Product : Fedora 35
Version : 5.4.3
Release : 4.fc35
URL :   http://www.lua.org/
Summary : Powerful light-weight programming language
Description :
Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for
extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a
general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is free software.
Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description
constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua
is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic
memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for
configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

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Update Information:

Fix CVE-2021-44647 (and other known upstream bugs)
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jan 24 2022 Tom Callaway - 5.4.3-4
- apply upstream fix for CVE-2021-44647
- apply upstream fixes for known lua bugs 4-10 (11 assumes other changes beyond 5.4.3)
* Thu Jan 20 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 5.4.3-3
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2044415 - CVE-2021-44647 lua: type confusion in funcnamefromcode in ldebug.c could result in local DoS
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044415
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-93f064549c' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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