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Mercurial Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA31108
Release Date: 2008-07-16
Last Update: 2008-10-01
Popularity: 2,174 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Manipulation of data
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Mercurial 1.x

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Description:
Some security issues have been reported in Mercurial, which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain data or bypass certain security restrictions.

1) A security issue is caused due to an error within the "applydiff()" function in mercurial/patch.py. This can be exploited to manipulate arbitrary files placed outside the repository via directory traversal attacks.

Successful exploitation requires that a user is tricked into importing a malicious patch.

2) A security issue is caused due to hgweb not correctly honoring the "allowpull" setting, which can be exploited to e.g. pull from restricted repositories.

The security issue are reported in versions prior to 1.0.2.

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