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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-3902): Mercurial vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-3902): Mercurial vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/22/2019
Created
08/09/2019
Added
08/07/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A flaw was found in Mercurial before 4.9. It was possible to use symlinks and subrepositories to defeat Mercurial's path-checking logic and write files outside a repository.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-mercurial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-mercurial-common

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