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Fedora 26: Security Advisory - Mercurial Command Injection Risks

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Calendar Grey August 29, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent Mercurial security patch for Fedora 26 tackles critical command injection and directory traversal flaws, improving overall security.
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

To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Severity
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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 4.2.3
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: Mercurial -- a distributed SCM

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