Advisories » MGASA-2018-0041

Updated mercurial packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Jan 2018
Modification date: 03 Jan 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2017-17458

Description

A specially malformed repository may have caused Git subrepositories to
run arbitrary code (CVE-2017-17458).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22171
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-12/msg00071.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17458

SRPMS

5/core

• mercurial-3.1.1-5.6.mga5

6/core

• mercurial-4.1.3-1.2.mga6