mercurial

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Description	A scalable distributed SCM tool
Version	6.8.2-1 [extra]

Resolved

Group	Affected	Fixed	Severity	Status	Ticket
AVG-378	4.2.2-1	4.2.3-1	Critical	Fixed

Issue	Group	Severity	Remote	Type	Description
CVE-2017-1000116	AVG-378	Critical	Yes	Arbitrary command execution	Mercurial < 4.3 was not sanitizing hostnames passed to ssh, allowing shell injection attacks on clients by specifying a hostname starting with...
CVE-2017-1000115	AVG-378	High	Yes	Arbitrary filesystem access	Mercurial's symlink auditing was incomplete prior to 4.3, and could be abused to write to files outside the repository.

Issue

Group

Severity

Remote

Type

Description

Critical

Yes

Arbitrary command execution

Mercurial < 4.3 was not sanitizing hostnames passed to ssh, allowing shell injection attacks on clients by specifying a hostname starting with...

High

Yes

Arbitrary filesystem access

Mercurial's symlink auditing was incomplete prior to 4.3, and could be abused to write to files outside the repository.

Date	Advisory	Group	Severity	Type
12 Aug 2017	ASA-201708-7	AVG-378	Critical	multiple issues