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RedHat Update for mercurial RHSA-2017:2489-01
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'mercurial' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
Mercurial is a fast, lightweight source control management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects. Security Fix(es): * A vulnerability was found in the way Mercurial handles path auditing and caches the results. An attacker could abuse a repository with a series of commits mixing symlinks and regular files/directories to trick Mercurial into writing outside of a given repository. (CVE-2017-1000115) * A shell command injection flaw related to the handling of 'ssh' URLs has been discovered in Mercurial. This can be exploited to execute shell commands with the privileges of the user running the Mercurial client, for example, when performing a 'checkout' or 'update' action on a sub-repository within a malicious repository or a legitimate repository containing a malicious commit. (CVE-2017-1000116) Red Hat would like to thank the Mercurial Security Team for reporting CVE-2017-1000115 and the Subversion Team for reporting CVE-2017-1000116.
Affected Software
Affected Software
mercurial on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.