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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.131308
Category:Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
Title:Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0138)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'mercurial' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2016-0138 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'mercurial' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2016-0138 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Updated mercurial packages fix security vulnerabilities:

Blake Burkhart discovered that Mercurial allows URLs for Git subrepositories
that could result in arbitrary code execution on clone (CVE-2016-3068).

Blake Burkhart discovered that Mercurial allows arbitrary code execution when
converting Git repositories with specially crafted names (CVE-2016-3069).

It was discovered that Mercurial does not properly perform bounds-checking in
its binary delta decoder, which may be exploitable for remote code execution
via clone, push or pull (CVE-2016-3630).

Affected Software/OS:
'mercurial' package(s) on Mageia 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-3068
BugTraq ID: 85733
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85733
Debian Security Information: DSA-3542 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3542
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181505.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181542.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-19
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2016:0706
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0706.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2016:1010 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00016.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2016:1011 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00017.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:1016 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00018.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:1073 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00043.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-3069
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-3630
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