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openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2018:3517-1 Moderate: Mercurial Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest openSUSE update for Mercurial fixes the moderate severity CVE-2018-17983 security flaw, enhancing version control security and system integrity
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for mercurial fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2018-17983: Fix an out-of-bounds read during parsing of a malformed

manifest entry (bsc#1110899).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1297=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

mercurial-4.5.2-lp150.2.6.1

mercurial-debuginfo-4.5.2-lp150.2.6.1

mercurial-debugsource-4.5.2-lp150.2.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (noarch):

mercurial-lang-4.5.2-lp150.2.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17983.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1110899

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3517-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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