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openSUSE: 2020:0880-1 Low Severity: Mercurial Symlink Threat

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Calendar Grey June 27, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An update for mercurial in openSUSE fixes a security vulnerability associated with symbolic links. Follow the advised patch installation procedures.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for mercurial fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2019-3902: Fixed incorrect patch-checking with symlinks and subrepos

(bsc#1133035).

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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-880=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

mercurial-4.5.2-lp152.7.3.1

mercurial-debuginfo-4.5.2-lp152.7.3.1

mercurial-debugsource-4.5.2-lp152.7.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

mercurial-lang-4.5.2-lp152.7.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3902.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1133035

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0880-1
Rating: low
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2

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