Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201709-18

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mercurial, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Affected packages

dev-vcs/mercurial on all architectures
Affected versions < 4.3
Unaffected versions >= 4.3

Background

Mercurial is a distributed source control management system.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mercurial. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Mercurial users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-vcs/mercurial-4.3"
 

References

Release date
September 24, 2017

Latest revision
September 24, 2017: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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