Advisories » MGASA-2017-0331

Updated mercurial package fixes security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 07 Sep 2017
Modification date: 07 Sep 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-1000115 , CVE-2017-1000116

Description

Mercurial was not sanitizing hostnames passed to ssh, allowing shell
injection attacks by specifying a hostname starting with -oProxyCommand.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21510
• https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2017-August/050522.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000115
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000116

SRPMS

5/core

• mercurial-3.1.1-5.5.mga5