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Debian: CVE-2017-9462: mercurial -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-9462: mercurial -- security update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/04/2017
Modified
02/24/2020

Description

In Mercurial before 4.1.3, "hg serve --stdio" allows remote authenticated users to launch the Python debugger, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by using --debugger as a repository name.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-mercurial

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