MGASA-2016-0138

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    MGASA-2016-0138

    Published: 13 Apr 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated mercurial packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated mercurial packages fix security vulnerabilities: Blake Burkhart discovered that Mercurial allows URLs for Git subrepositories that could result in arbitrary code execution on clone (CVE-2016-3068). Blake Burkhart discovered that Mercurial allows arbitrary code execution when converting Git repositories with specially crafted names (CVE-2016-3069). It was discovered that Mercurial does not properly perform bounds-checking in its binary delta decoder, which may be exploitable for remote code execution via clone, push or pull (CVE-2016-3630).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0138.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18124, https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3542

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mercurial

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/mercurial?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.1.1-5.1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High