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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 201612-19
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 Severity: Normal
    Title: Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities
     Date: December 07, 2016
     Bugs: #533008, #544332, #578546, #582238
       ID: 201612-19

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mercurial, the worst of
which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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Mercurial is a distributed source control management system.

Affected packages
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  1  dev-vcs/mercurial            < 3.8.4                    >= 3.8.4

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mercurial. Please
review the CVE identifier and bug reports referenced for details.

Impact
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A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the process.

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-vcs/mercurial-3.8.4"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2014-9390
      https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9390
[ 2 ] CVE-2014-9462
      https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9462
[ 3 ] CVE-2016-3068
      https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3068
[ 4 ] CVE-2016-3069
      https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3069
[ 5 ] CVE-2016-3105
      https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3105
[ 6 ] CVE-2016-3630
      https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3630

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-19

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@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2016 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.

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