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mercurial -- multiple issues

Affected packages
		mercurial	<	4.3

Details

VuXML ID	b0628e53-092a-4037-938b-29805a7cd31b
Discovery	2017-10-05
Entry	2017-10-16

mercurial developers reports:

Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to modify files outside the repository

Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2017-1000115
CVE Name	CVE-2017-1000116
URL	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290
URL	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18
URL	https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29