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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1224-1 mercurial -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

28 Dec 2017

Affected Packages:

mercurial

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-17458.

More information:

A vulnerability was found in the Mercurial version control system which could lead to remote arbitrary code execution.

• CVE-2017-17458

  A specially malformed Mercurial repository could cause Git subrepositories to run arbitrary code in the form of a .git/hooks/post-update script checked into the parent repository. Typical use of Mercurial prevents construction of such repositories, but they can be created programmatically.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.2-4+deb7u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your mercurial packages.

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