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2019-04-22
A flaw was found in Mercurial before 4.9. It was possible to use symlinks and subrepositories to defeat Mercurial's path-checking logic and write files outside a repository.
| Products | Debian_linux, Mercurial, Enterprise_linux |
| Type | Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') (CWE-59) |
| First patch | - None (likely due to unavailable code) |
| Links |
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4086-1/
• https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.9_.282019-02-01.29 • https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00024.html • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3902 |