suse-su-2018:0127-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2018-01-17 21:45
Modified
2018-01-17 21:45
Summary
Security update for mercurial

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for mercurial
Description of the patch
This update for mercurial fixes the following issues: - CVE-2017-17458: In Mercurial before 4.4.1, it is possible that a specially malformed repository can cause Git subrepositories to run arbitrary code in the form of a .git/hooks/post-update script checked into the repository. Typical use of Mercurial prevents construction of such repositories, but they can be created programmatically. (bsc#1071715):
Patchnames
sdksp4-mercurial-13420
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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