On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 12:32:13AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Source: mercurial > Version: 4.8.2-1 > Severity: grave > Tags: security > > See https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew from 4.9: > > This was assigned CVE-2019-3902: > It was possible to use symlinks and subrepositories to defeat Mercurial's > path-checking > logic and write files outside a repository. This has been fixed. Users on > older versions > can either disable subrepositories with [subrepos] allowed=false in their > configuration > or by ensuring any cloned repositories don't contain malicious symlinks. > > This is fixed in sid, but buster still has 4.8.2.
A month later this is still unfixed in buster. Does anyone care about having this in a stable release? Probably not, because noone cared about stretch already either: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mercurial If that's the case, let's drop it from buster? Cheers, Moritz
