6/8/2019

USN-4086-1: Mercurial vulnerability

First published: Tue Aug 06 2019(Updated: )

It was discovered that Mercurial mishandled symlinks in subrepositories. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the target's filesystem.

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
All of
ubuntu/mercurial	<4.8.2-1ubuntu3.19.04.1	4.8.2-1ubuntu3.19.04.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=19.04
All of
ubuntu/mercurial-common	<4.8.2-1ubuntu3.19.04.1	4.8.2-1ubuntu3.19.04.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=19.04

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(Contains the following vulnerabilities)

CVE-2019-3902

agent/references
agent/title
agent/last-modified-date
agent/severity
agent/softwarecombine
agent/type
agent/description
agent/first-publish-date
agent/event
agent/tags
agent/trending
collector/usn
source/Ubuntu
agent/software-canonical-lookup
package-manager/ubuntu
vendor/ubuntu
canonical/ubuntu ubuntu
version/ubuntu ubuntu/19.04

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