UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17983

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17983

    Published: 4 Oct 2018Last Modified: 14 Mar 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-17983

    Summary:

    Details: cext/manifest.c in Mercurial before 4.7.2 has an out-of-bounds read during parsing of a malformed manifest entry.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17983, https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/5405cb1a7901, https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.7.2_.282018-10-01.29, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5102-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17983, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5102-2

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mercurial

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.5.3-1ubuntu2.2

    Affected versions

    4.3.1-2

    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