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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-9462 (11.3 SRU 20.5.0)

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-9462 (11.3 SRU 20.5.0)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/18/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-developer-versioning-mercurial-27-4-1-3-0-175-3-20-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-developer-versioning-mercurial-4-1-3-0-175-3-20-0-3-0

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