MGASA-2017-0331

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    MGASA-2017-0331

    Published: 7 Sept 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated mercurial package fixes security vulnerabilities

    Details: Mercurial was not sanitizing hostnames passed to ssh, allowing shell injection attacks by specifying a hostname starting with -oProxyCommand.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0331.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21510, https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2017-August/050522.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mercurial

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.1.1-5.5.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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