GHSA-hvr9-wr9p-grgr
Mercurial missing symlink check
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to modify files outside the repository
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000115
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mercurial/PYSEC-2017-88.yaml
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227155758/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963