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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3963-1 (mercurial - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Several issues were discovered in Mercurial, a distributed revision control system. CVE-2017-9462 (fixed in stretch only) Jonathan Claudius of Mozilla discovered that repositories served over stdio could be tricked into granting authorized users access to the Python debugger. CVE-2017-1000115 Mercurial's symlink auditing was incomplete, and could be abused to write files outside the repository. CVE-2017-1000116 Joern Schneeweisz discovered that Mercurial did not correctly handle maliciously constructed ssh:// URLs. This allowed an attacker to run an arbitrary shell command.
Affected Software
Affected Software
mercurial on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 3.1.2-2+deb8u4. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0-1+deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your mercurial packages.