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🛡️ MGASA-2023-0005 — minetest (CVE-2022-35978)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

Updated minetest packages fix security vulnerability

This update provides minetest 5.6.1, the latest stable release of the open

source voxel game. This updates provides a number of feature and bug fix

changes compared to the previous version 5.4.0 provided in Mageia 8. See

the linked release notes and changelogs for details.

The update also improves compatibility with hosted game servers, which

typically run and expect the latest stable release.

The update also fixes a security vulnerability affecting single player

with malicious mods (GHSA-663q-pcjw-27cc)

In single player, a mod could set a global setting that controls the Lua

script loaded to display the main menu. The script would be loaded as soon

as the game session is exited. The Lua environment the menu runs in was

not sandboxed and could directly interfere with the user's system.

(CVE-2022-35978)

Affected software

MGASA-2023-0005 is recorded against 1 package.

  • minetest (fixed in 5.6.1-1.mga8)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 January 2023 and last revised on 16 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

advisories.mageia.org (Advisory)
bugs.mageia.org (Report)
blog.minetest.net (Web)
dev.minetest.net (Web)
dev.minetest.net (Web)
dev.minetest.net (Web)
github.com (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

minetest has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-01-13
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-04-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
minetest — 5.6.1-1.mga8

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