{"id":"MGASA-2019-0250","summary":"Updated mercurial packages fix security vulnerability","details":"It was discovered that Mercurial mishandled symlinks in subrepositories.\nAn attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the\ntarget’s filesystem (CVE-2019-3902).\n","modified":"2026-01-31T07:40:37.241465Z","published":"2019-09-06T21:09:08Z","related":["CVE-2019-3902"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0250.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25291"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4086-1/"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mercurial","ecosystem":"Mageia:6","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/mercurial?arch=source&distro=mageia-6"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.9.1-1.mga6"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0250.json"}},{"package":{"name":"mercurial","ecosystem":"Mageia:7","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/mercurial?arch=source&distro=mageia-7"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.9.1-1.mga7"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0250.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}