USN-5102-1: Mercurial vulnerabilities

4 October 2021

Several security issues were fixed in Mercurial.

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Releases

Packages

  • mercurial - easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system

Details

It was discovered that Mercurial mishandled symlinks in subrepositories. An
attacker could use this issue to write arbitrary files to the
target’s filesystem. (CVE-2019-3902)

It was discovered that Mercurial incorrectly handled certain manifest files.
An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service and possibly
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-17983)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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