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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1764-1 mercurial -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

25 Apr 2019

Affected Packages:

mercurial

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-3902.

More information:

It was discovered that there was a path traversal vulnerability in the mercurial distributed revision version control system.

• CVE-2019-3902

  A flaw was found in Mercurial before 4.9. It was possible to use symlinks and subrepositories to defeat Mercurial's path-checking logic and write files outside a repository.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 3.1.2-2+deb8u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your mercurial packages.

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