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Fedora 25: 2017-fa1d8ad61a Critical: Mercurial Path Traversal

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Calendar Grey September 28, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A recent update for Fedora addresses vulnerabilities in Mercurial related to directory traversal and command execution exploits.
Security fix for CVE-2017-1000115, CVE-2017-1000116

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:

Security fix for CVE-2017-1000115, CVE-2017-1000116

[ 1 ] Bug #1480330 - CVE-2017-1000115 Mercurial: pathaudit: path traversal via symlink

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1480330

[ 2 ] Bug #1479915 - CVE-2017-1000116 mercurial: command injection on clients through malicious ssh URLs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1479915

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 25
Version: 3.8.1
Release: 4.fc25
Summary: Mercurial -- a distributed SCM

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