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openSUSE Security Update : mercurial (mercurial-230)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40066

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The hgweb script didn't enforce the 'allowpull' permission setting which allowed anyone to retrieve files from the repository (CVE-2008-4297)

Solution

Update the affected mercurial package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427243

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40066

File Name: suse_11_0_mercurial-080929.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4297

CWE: 264