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Debian DLA-1072-1 : mercurial security update
critical Nessus Plugin ID 102886
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
Two significant vulnerabilities were found in the Mercurial version control system which could lead to shell injection attacks and out-of-tree file overwrite.CVE-2017-1000115
Mercurial's symlink auditing was incomplete prior to 4.3, and could be abused to write to files outside the repository.
CVE-2017-1000116
Mercurial was not sanitizing hostnames passed to ssh, allowing shell injection attacks on clients by specifying a hostname starting with
-oProxyCommand. This vulnerability is similar to those in Git (CVE-2017-1000117) and Subversion (CVE-2017-9800).
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.2-4+deb7u5.
We recommend that you upgrade your mercurial packages.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Upgrade the affected mercurial, and mercurial-common packages.See Also
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/08/msg00032.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 102886
File Name: debian_DLA-1072.nasl
Version: 3.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 9/1/2017
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 7.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mercurial, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mercurial-common, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2017
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2017