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Mageia Linux Local Check: mgasa-2016-0138
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Mageia Linux Local Security Checks mgasa-2016-0138
Insight
Insight
Updated mercurial packages fix security vulnerabilities: Blake Burkhart discovered that Mercurial allows URLs for Git subrepositories that could result in arbitrary code execution on clone (CVE-2016-3068). Blake Burkhart discovered that Mercurial allows arbitrary code execution when converting Git repositories with specially crafted names (CVE-2016-3069). It was discovered that Mercurial does not properly perform bounds-checking in its binary delta decoder, which may be exploitable for remote code execution via clone, push or pull (CVE-2016-3630).
Solution
Solution
Update the affected packages to the latest available version.