Security update for mercurial

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1558-1
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2017-9462 ( SUSE ): 9.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2017-9462 ( NVD ): 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for mercurial fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2017-9462: Arbitrary code execution was possible by remote users via "hg serve --stdio" (bsc#1043063):

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch sdksp4-mercurial-13144=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • mercurial-2.3.2-0.17.1

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