[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200807-09 ] Mercurial: Directory traversal

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200807-09

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http://security.gentoo.org/

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Severity: Normal

Title: Mercurial: Directory traversal

Date: July 15, 2008

Bugs: #230193

ID: 200807-09

 

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Synopsis

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A directory traversal vulnerability in Mercurial allows for the

renaming of arbitrary files.

 

Background

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Mercurial is a distributed Source Control Management system.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 dev-util/mercurial < 1.0.1-r2 >= 1.0.1-r2

 

Description

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Jakub Wilk discovered a directory traversal vulnerabilty in the

applydiff() function in the mercurial/patch.py file.

 

Impact

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A remote attacker could entice a user to import a specially crafted

patch, possibly resulting in the renaming of arbitrary files, even

outside the repository.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All Mercurial users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-util/mercurial-1.0.1-r2"

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-2942

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2942

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-09.xml

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5