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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-1000116: Security patch for mercurial (ALAS-2017-893)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-1000116: Security patch for mercurial (ALAS-2017-893)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/13/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2017
Modified
08/25/2020

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mercurial

References

  • ALAS-2017-893
  • DSA-3963
  • CVE-2017-1000116

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