Debian DLA-2293-1 : mercurial security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 139244

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in mercurial, an easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system.

CVE-2017-17458

In Mercurial before 4.4.1, it is possible that a specially malformed repository can cause Git subrepositories to run arbitrary code in the form of a .git/hooks/post-update script checked into the repository.
Typical use of Mercurial prevents construction of such repositories, but they can be created programmatically.

CVE-2018-13346

The mpatch_apply function in mpatch.c in Mercurial before 4.6.1 incorrectly proceeds in cases where the fragment start is past the end of the original data.

CVE-2018-13347

mpatch.c in Mercurial before 4.6.1 mishandles integer addition and subtraction.

CVE-2018-13348

The mpatch_decode function in mpatch.c in Mercurial before 4.6.1 mishandles certain situations where there should be at least 12 bytes remaining after the current position in the patch data, but actually are not.

CVE-2018-1000132

Mercurial version 4.5 and earlier contains a Incorrect Access Control (CWE-285) vulnerability in Protocol server that can result in Unauthorized data access. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 4.5.1.

CVE-2019-3902

Symbolic links and subrepositories could be used defeat Mercurial's path-checking logic and write files outside the repository root.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.0-1+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your mercurial packages.

For the detailed security status of mercurial please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mercurial

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 139244

File Name: debian_DLA-2293.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/3/2020

Updated: 2/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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 Score Source: CVE-2017-17458

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-13347

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mercurial, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mercurial-common, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-17458, CVE-2018-1000132, CVE-2018-13346, CVE-2018-13347, CVE-2018-13348, CVE-2019-3902

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