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Red Hat: CVE-2017-1000115: Important: mercurial security update (RHSA-2017:2489)

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Red Hat: CVE-2017-1000115: Important: mercurial security update (RHSA-2017:2489)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/17/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/17/2018
Modified
03/03/2021

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-emacs-mercurial
  • redhat-upgrade-emacs-mercurial-el
  • redhat-upgrade-mercurial
  • redhat-upgrade-mercurial-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-mercurial-hgk

References

  • 100290
  • DSA-3963
  • GLSA-201709-18
  • CVE-2017-1000115
  • RHSA-2017:2489

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