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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3542-1 mercurial -- security update

Date Reported:

05 Apr 2016

Affected Packages:

mercurial

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 819504.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-3068, CVE-2016-3069, CVE-2016-3630.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mercurial, a distributed version control system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

• CVE-2016-3068

  Blake Burkhart discovered that Mercurial allows URLs for Git subrepositories that could result in arbitrary code execution on clone.

• CVE-2016-3069

  Blake Burkhart discovered that Mercurial allows arbitrary code execution when converting Git repositories with specially crafted names.

• CVE-2016-3630

  It was discovered that Mercurial does not properly perform bounds-checking in its binary delta decoder, which may be exploitable for remote code execution via clone, push or pull.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.2-4+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 3.1.2-2+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.7.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mercurial packages.