Mercurial vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Mercurial could be made to overwrite files.
Software Description
It was discovered that Mercurial mishandled symlinks in subrepositories. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the target’s filesystem.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 19.04
mercurial - 4.8.2-1ubuntu3.19.04.1
mercurial-common - 4.8.2-1ubuntu3.19.04.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 19.04
Mercurial could be made to overwrite files.
Software Description
- mercurial - easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system
It was discovered that Mercurial mishandled symlinks in subrepositories. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the target’s filesystem.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 19.04
mercurial - 4.8.2-1ubuntu3.19.04.1
mercurial-common - 4.8.2-1ubuntu3.19.04.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
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