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openSUSE Security Update : mercurial (openSUSE-2017-1388)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 105343

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for mercurial fixes the following issue :

 - CVE-2017-17458: A specially malformed repository may have caused Git subrepositories to run arbitrary code (bsc#1071715)

Solution

Update the affected mercurial packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1071715

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 105343

File Name: openSUSE-2017-1388.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2017

Updated: 11/11/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-17458

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-17458