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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2017-1000115) ELSA-2017-2489: mercurial security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2017-1000115) ELSA-2017-2489: mercurial security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/17/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2017
Modified
09/16/2019

Description

Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to modify files outside the repository

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-emacs-mercurial
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-emacs-mercurial-el
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mercurial
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mercurial-hgk

References

  • ELSA-2017-2489
  • DSA-3963
  • CVE-2017-1000115

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