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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2010-4237: mercurial -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Oct 29, 2019
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Mercurial before 1.6.4 fails to verify the Common Name field of SSL certificates which allows remote attackers who acquire a certificate signed by a Certificate Authority to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.

Solution

debian-upgrade-mercurial
Title
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