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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-2942: Mercurial: Directory traversal

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-2942: Mercurial: Directory traversal

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/30/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in patch.py in Mercurial 1.0.1 allows user-assisted attackers to modify arbitrary files via ".." (dot dot) sequences in a patch file.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-util-mercurial

References

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