The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201612-19 (Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities)

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

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

    There is no known workaround at this time.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The convert extension in Mercurial before 3.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary     code via a crafted git repository name. (CVE-2016-3105)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Blake Burkhart discovered an arbitrary code execution flaw in Mercurial, a distributed version control system, when using the convert extension on Git repositories with specially crafted names.
This flaw in particular affects automated code conversion services that allow arbitrary repository names.

Blake Burkhart discovered an arbitrary code execution flaw in Mercurial, a distributed version control system, when using the convert extension on Git repositories with specially crafted names.
This flaw in particular affects automated code conversion services that allow arbitrary repository names.

Patches are taken from the Jessie version.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the mercurial package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - The _validaterepo function in sshpeer in Mercurial before 3.2.4 allows remote attackers to execute     arbitrary commands via a crafted repository name in a clone command. (CVE-2014-9462)

  - The convert extension in Mercurial before 3.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary     code via a crafted git repository name. (CVE-2016-3105)

  - The binary delta decoder in Mercurial before 3.7.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a     (1) clone, (2) push, or (3) pull command, related to (a) a list sizing rounding error and (b) short     records. (CVE-2016-3630)

  - The mpatch_decode function in mpatch.c in Mercurial before 4.6.1 mishandles certain situations where there     should be at least 12 bytes remaining after the current position in the patch data, but actually are not,     aka OVE-20180430-0001. (CVE-2018-13348)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An update of [apache-tomcat,mercurial] packages for PhotonOS has been released.

An update of the mercurial package has been released.

Mercurial reports :

CVE-2016-3105: Arbitrary code execution when converting Git repos

This update for mercurial fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

  - CVE-2016-3105: Fixed arbitrary code execution whenusing     the convert extension on Git repo. (boo#978391)

New mercurial packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
95605	GLSA-201612-19 : Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	12/7/2016	1/11/2021	critical
219522	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-3105	Nessus	Misc.	3/4/2025	9/14/2025	high
90929	Debian DSA-3570-1 : mercurial - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	5/6/2016	1/11/2021	high
90943	Debian DLA-459-1 : mercurial security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	5/9/2016	1/11/2021	high
161516	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : mercurial (EulerOS-SA-2022-1747)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	5/26/2022	10/26/2023	high
111845	Photon OS 1.0: Apache / Mercurial PHSA-2016-0011 (deprecated)	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	8/17/2018	2/7/2019	high
121646	Photon OS 1.0: Mercurial PHSA-2016-0011	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	2/7/2019	7/23/2024	high
90845	FreeBSD : mercurial -- arbitrary code execution vulnerability (78abc022-0fee-11e6-9a1c-0014a5a57822)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	5/3/2016	1/4/2021	high
91279	openSUSE Security Update : mercurial (openSUSE-2016-609)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	5/20/2016	1/19/2021	high
90836	Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / 14.1 / current : mercurial (SSA:2016-123-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	5/3/2016	1/14/2021	critical

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