RHSA-2019:2276 — Security Advisory

An update for mercurial is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Mercurial is a fast, lightweight source control management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.

Security Fix(es):

• mercurial: Buffer underflow in mpatch.c:mpatch_apply() (CVE-2018-13347)

• mercurial: HTTP server permissions bypass (CVE-2018-1000132)

• mercurial: Missing check for fragment start position in mpatch.c:mpatch_apply() (CVE-2018-13346)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.