Mercurial patch.py directory traversal
| mercurial-patch-directory-traversal (43551) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Mercurial could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted request to the patch.py script containing "dot dot" sequences (..) using a patch file to modify arbitrary files on the system.
Platforms Affected:
- Gentoo, Linux
- Mercurial, Mercurial 1.0.1
Remedy:
Apply the patch for this vulnerability (87c704ac92d4), available from the Mercurial Web site. See References.
Consequences:
Obtain Information
References:
- Mercurial Web site, Mercurial at http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/.
- Mercurial Web site, changeset 6758:87c704ac92d4 at http://www.selenic.com/hg/rev/87c704ac92d4.
- oss-security Mailing List, Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:47:19 +0200, CVE id request mercurial:Insufficient input validation at http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/1.
- BID-30072: Mercurial 'patch.py' Directory Traversal Vulnerability
- CVE-2008-2942: Directory traversal vulnerability in patch.py in Mercurial 1.0.1 allows user-assisted attackers to modify arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in a patch file.
- GLSA-200807-09: Mercurial: Directory traversal
- SA31108: Mercurial "applydiff()" Directory Traversal Security Issue
- SUSE-SR:2008:015: SUSE Security Summary Report
Reported:
Jun 30, 2008
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