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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-1000116: Important: mercurial security update (CESA-2017:2489)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-1000116: Important: mercurial security update (CESA-2017:2489)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/05/2017
Created
08/29/2019
Added
08/28/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-emacs-mercurial
  • centos-upgrade-emacs-mercurial-el
  • centos-upgrade-mercurial
  • centos-upgrade-mercurial-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-mercurial-hgk

References

  • 100290
  • DSA-3963
  • CVE-2017-1000116
  • RHSA-2017:2489

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