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openSUSE Security Update : mercurial (openSUSE-2019-864)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 123361

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for mercurial fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2018-17983: Fix an out-of-bounds read during parsing of a malformed manifest entry (bsc#1110899).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected mercurial packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1110899

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 123361

File Name: openSUSE-2019-864.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/27/2019

Updated: 6/10/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17983

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial-lang

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17983