GLSA 200807-09: Mercurial: Directory traversal

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Mercurial: Directory traversal
Date:	07/15/2008
Bugs:	#230193
ID:	200807-09

Synopsis

A directory traversal vulnerability in Mercurial allows for the renaming of arbitrary files.

Background

Mercurial is a distributed Source Control Management system.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
dev-util/mercurial	< 1.0.1-r2	>= 1.0.1-r2	All supported architectures

Description

Jakub Wilk discovered a directory traversal vulnerabilty in the applydiff() function in the mercurial/patch.py file.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to import a specially crafted patch, possibly resulting in the renaming of arbitrary files, even outside the repository.

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-util/mercurial-1.0.1-r2"

References

CVE-2008-2942

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-09.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.