File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.17612
<patchinfo incident="17612">
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1192712">VUL-1: CVE-2021-41259: nim: null byte accepted in getContent function, leading to URI validation bypass</issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1181705">VUL-0: CVE-2020-15690: nim: Standard library asyncftpclient lacks a check for newline character</issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1185083">VUL-0: CVE-2021-21372: nim: doCmd can be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands</issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1175332">VUL-0: CVE-2020-15694: nim: httpClient.get().contentLength() fails to properly validate the server response</issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1185084">VUL-0: CVE-2021-21373: nim: "nimble refresh" falls back to a non-TLS URL in case of error</issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1185085">VUL-0: CVE-2021-21374: nim: Improper verification of the SSL/TLS certificate</issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1175333">VUL-0: CVE-2020-15693: nim: httpClient is vulnerable to a CR-LF injection</issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1185948">VUL-0: CVE-2021-29495: nim: stdlib httpClient does not validate peer certificates by default</issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1175334">VUL-0: CVE-2020-15692: nim: mishandle of argument to browsers.openDefaultBrowser</issue>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2021-21372"/>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2020-15690"/>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2020-15693"/>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2021-21373"/>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2021-21374"/>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2020-15692"/>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2020-15694"/>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2021-41259"/>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2021-29495"/>
<packager>david.anes</packager>
<rating>important</rating>
<category>security</category>
<summary>Security update for nim</summary>
<description>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
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
</description>
</patchinfo>