openSUSE Security Update : mercurial (openSUSE-2016-452)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90485

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

mercurial was updated to fix three security issues.

These security issues were fixed :

- CVE-2016-3069: Arbitrary code execution when converting Git repos (bsc#973176).

- CVE-2016-3068: Arbitrary code execution with Git subrepos (bsc#973177).

- CVE-2016-3630: Remote code execution in binary delta decoding (bsc#973175).

Solution

Update the affected mercurial packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90485

File Name: openSUSE-2016-452.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/13/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, 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/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3068, CVE-2016-3069, CVE-2016-3630

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