gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201612-19.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-19">
  <title>Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mercurial, the worst of
    which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mercurial</product>
  <announced>2016-12-07</announced>
  <revised count="1">2016-12-07</revised>
  <bug>533008</bug>
  <bug>544332</bug>
  <bug>578546</bug>
  <bug>582238</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-vcs/mercurial" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.8.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.8.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Mercurial is a distributed source control management system.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mercurial. Please
      review the CVE identifier and bug reports referenced for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the process.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All mercurial users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-vcs/mercurial-3.8.4"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9390">CVE-2014-9390</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9462">CVE-2014-9462</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3068">CVE-2016-3068</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3069">CVE-2016-3069</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3105">CVE-2016-3105</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3630">CVE-2016-3630</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-01-15T22:49:35Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-07T10:35:02Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>