PT-2018-14313 · Mercurial+3 · Mercurial+3

Yuya Nishihara · Published 2018-10-04 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-17983

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.1

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mercurial versions prior to 4.7.2

Description The issue is related to an out-of-bounds read that occurs during the parsing of a malformed manifest entry in the cext/manifest.c file. This can potentially lead to information disclosure or other security issues.

Recommendations For Mercurial versions prior to 4.7.2, update to version 4.7.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to malformed manifest entries until the update is applied.

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2508

CVE-2018-17983

GHSA-P575-CF9H-WV42

MGASA-2018-0442

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3517-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10586-1

PYSEC-2018-91

SUSE-SU-2018:3430-1

SUSE-SU-2018_3430-1

USN-5102-1

USN-5102-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mercurial

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 34

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17983 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-3902 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2018-91 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0442.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17983 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/5405cb1a7901 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17983 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-p575-cf9h-wv42 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17983 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5102-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5102-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17983 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5102-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10586-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:3430-1 · Vendor Advisory