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openSUSE Leap 42.2: 2017:1572-1 Important: Mercurial Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Uncover the urgent openSUSE update for Mercurial that fixes a serious vulnerability risking arbitrary code execution. This update is essential for system security and integrity
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is ...

Description

This update for mercurial fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2017-9462: Fix the arbitrary code exec by remote users via "hg serve

--stdio" (boo#1043063)

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-689=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

mercurial-3.8.3-2.5.1

mercurial-debuginfo-3.8.3-2.5.1

mercurial-debugsource-3.8.3-2.5.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

mercurial-lang-3.8.3-2.5.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9462.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1043063

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1043502

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1572-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2

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