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Debian 8: DLA-1764-1 Critical: Mercurial Path Traversal Issue

debian lts
Calendar Grey April 25, 2019
Dist Debian Esm H88
Debian LTS has fixed a serious path traversal vulnerability in Mercurial 3.1.2-2+deb8u7, enhancing system security by preventing unauthorized file access and user exploits
It was discovered that there was a path traversal vulnerability in the "mercurial" distributed revision version control system
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Summary

For Debian 8 "Jessie", this issue has been fixed in mercurial version
3.1.2-2+deb8u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your mercurial packages.


Regards,

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Package: mercurial
Version: 3.1.2-2+deb8u7
CVE ID: CVE-2019-3902
Debian Bug: #927674

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