GLSA 201709-18: Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	09/24/2017
Bugs:	#621068, #627484
ID:	201709-18

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mercurial, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Mercurial is a distributed source control management system.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
dev-vcs/mercurial	< 4.3	>= 4.3	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mercurial. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Mercurial users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-vcs/mercurial-4.3"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201709-18.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.