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From: Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o>
To: gentoo-announce@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 201709-18 ] Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 15:50:17
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201709-18
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7 Severity: Normal
8 Title: Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities
9 Date: September 24, 2017
10 Bugs: #621068, #627484
11 ID: 201709-18
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15 Synopsis
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18 Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mercurial, the worst of
19 which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
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21 Background
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24 Mercurial is a distributed source control management system.
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26 Affected packages
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30 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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32 1 dev-vcs/mercurial < 4.3 >= 4.3
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34 Description
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37 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mercurial. Please
38 review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
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40 Impact
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43 A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
44 privileges of the process.
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46 Workaround
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49 There is no known workaround at this time.
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51 Resolution
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54 All Mercurial users should upgrade to the latest version:
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56 # emerge --sync
57 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-vcs/mercurial-4.3"
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59 References
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62 [ 1 ] CVE-2017-1000115
63 https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-1000115
64 [ 2 ] CVE-2017-1000116
65 https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-1000116
66 [ 3 ] CVE-2017-9462
67 https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-9462
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69 Availability
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72 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
73 the Gentoo Security Website:
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75 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18
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77 Concerns?
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80 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
81 confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
82 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
83 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
84 https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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86 License
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89 Copyright 2017 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
90 belongs to its owner(s).
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92 The contents of this document are licensed under the
93 Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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95 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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