CVE-2008-2942

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in patch.py in Mercurial 1.0.1 allows user-assisted attackers to modify arbitrary files via ".." (dot dot) sequences in a patch file.

References

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2633

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43551

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30072

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493881/100/0/threaded

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/01/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/1

http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0211

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-09.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/31167

http://secunia.com/advisories/31110

http://secunia.com/advisories/31108

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00006.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3