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CRITICAL Nessus Plugin ID 139244 Synopsis The remote Debian host is missing a security update. Description Several vulnerabilities were discovered in mercurial, an easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system. CVE-2017-17458 In Mercurial before 4.4.1, it is possible that a specially malformed repository can cause Git subrepositories to run arbitrary code in the form of a .git/hooks/post-update script checked into the repository. Typical use of Mercurial prevents construction of such repositories, but they can be created programmatically. CVE-2018-13346 The mpatch_apply function in mpatch.c in Mercurial before 4.6.1 incorrectly proceeds in cases where the fragment start is past the end of the original data. CVE-2018-13347 mpatch.c in Mercurial before 4.6.1 mishandles integer addition and subtraction. CVE-2018-13348 The mpatch_decode function in mpatch.c in Mercurial before 4.6.1 mishandles certain situations where there should be at least 12 bytes remaining after the current position in the patch data, but actually are not. CVE-2018-1000132 Mercurial version 4.5 and earlier contains a Incorrect Access Control (CWE-285) vulnerability in Protocol server that can result in Unauthorized data access. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 4.5.1. CVE-2019-3902 Symbolic links and subrepositories could be used defeat Mercurial's path-checking logic and write files outside the repository root. For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.0-1+deb9u2. We recommend that you upgrade your mercurial packages. For the detailed security status of mercurial please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mercurial NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. Solution Upgrade the affected mercurial, and mercurial-common packages. Source