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Mageia 2018-0355 Security Advisory: Mercurial Update with Fixes

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2018
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2021-0420 offers an important patch for git that addresses significant security concerns and weaknesses ensuring secure functionality.
This update provides mercurial version 4.6.2 and fixes the following security issues: Fix the mpatch_apply function in mpatch.c that incorrectly proceeds in cases where the fragme...

Summary

This update provides mercurial version 4.6.2 and fixes the following security issues:
Fix the mpatch_apply function in mpatch.c that incorrectly proceeds in cases where the fragment start is past the end of the original data (CVE-2018-13346).
Fix mpatch.c that mishandles integer addition and subtraction (CVE-2018-13347).
Fix the mpatch_decode function in mpatch.c that mishandles certain situations where there should be at least 12 bytes remaining after the current position in the patch data (CVE-2018-13348).
Remote attackers may bypass HTTP server permissions via batch wire protocol commands(CVE-2018-1000132).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22895

- - - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-13346

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-13347

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-13348

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000132

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/mercurial-4.6.2-1.mga6

- 5/core/mercurial-4.6.2-1.mga5

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Publication date: 31 Aug 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0355.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-13346, CVE-2018-13347, CVE-2018-13348, CVE-2018-1000132

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