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Fedora 24 Update: 2017-b154ff2892 Moderate Mercurial Access Flaw

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Calendar Grey June 26, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addresses significant security vulnerability in Mercurial for Fedora 24, guaranteeing safe practices in version control administration.
Fixes CVE-2017-9462.

Summary

Mercurial is a fast, lightweight source control management system designed

for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.

Quick start: https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/QuickStart

Tutorial: Extensions:

Fixes CVE-2017-9462.

[ 1 ] Bug #1459485 - CVE-2017-9462 mercurial: Python debugger accessible to authorized users [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459485

su -c 'dnf upgrade mercurial' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 3.7.3
Release: 2.fc24
URL:
Summary: Mercurial -- a distributed SCM

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