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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-1000116: mercurial Multiples vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-1000116: mercurial Multiples vulnerabilities

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/15/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/20/2017
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-mercurial

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