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<glsa id="200807-09">
  <title>Mercurial: Directory traversal</title>
  <synopsis>
    A directory traversal vulnerability in Mercurial allows for the renaming of
    arbitrary files.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mercurial</product>
  <announced>July 15, 2008</announced>
  <revised>July 15, 2008: 01</revised>
  <bug>230193</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-util/mercurial" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0.1-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.1-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Mercurial is a distributed Source Control Management system.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Jakub Wilk discovered a directory traversal vulnerabilty in the
    applydiff() function in the mercurial/patch.py file.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to import a specially crafted
    patch, possibly resulting in the renaming of arbitrary files, even
    outside the repository.
    </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 &quot;&gt;=dev-util/mercurial-1.0.1-r2&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2942">CVE-2008-2942</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:37:24 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:41:04 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:48:10 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>