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Gentoo GLSA-201709-18 Moderate: Mercurial Remote Code Risk

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2017
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Potential risks from Mercurial flaws may enable remote executions. The Gentoo advisory GLSA 202303-14 outlines solutions for users impacted.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mercurial, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mercurial. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo software update code execution remote execution security risk mercurial

Resolution

All Mercurial users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-vcs/mercurial-4.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-1000115 https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-1000115 [ 2 ] CVE-2017-1000116 https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-1000116 [ 3 ] CVE-2017-9462 https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-9462

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: September 24, 2017
Bugs: #621068, #627484
ID: 201709-18

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo software update code execution remote execution security risk mercurial

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mercurial, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Mercurial is a distributed source control management system.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-vcs/mercurial < 4.3 >= 4.3

Impact

===== A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.