Synopsis: Important: mercurial security update Advisory ID: SLSA-2017:2489-1 Issue Date: 2017-08-17 CVE Numbers: CVE-2017-1000116 CVE-2017-1000115 -- Security Fix(es): * A vulnerability was found in the way Mercurial handles path auditing and caches the results. An attacker could abuse a repository with a series of commits mixing symlinks and regular files/directories to trick Mercurial into writing outside of a given repository. (CVE-2017-1000115) * A shell command injection flaw related to the handling of "ssh" URLs has been discovered in Mercurial. This can be exploited to execute shell commands with the privileges of the user running the Mercurial client, for example, when performing a "checkout" or "update" action on a sub- repository within a malicious repository or a legitimate repository containing a malicious commit. (CVE-2017-1000116) -- SL7 x86_64 emacs-mercurial-2.6.2-8.el7_4.x86_64.rpm emacs-mercurial-el-2.6.2-8.el7_4.x86_64.rpm mercurial-2.6.2-8.el7_4.x86_64.rpm mercurial-debuginfo-2.6.2-8.el7_4.x86_64.rpm mercurial-hgk-2.6.2-8.el7_4.x86_64.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team