Fluid Attacks Database

Description

Mercurial Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability cext/manifest.c in Mercurial before 4.7.2 has an out-of-bounds read during parsing of a malformed manifest entry.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected version	Patched versions
pypi	mercurial	>=0 <4.7.2	4.7.2
debian 11	mercurial	>=0 <4.7.2-1	4.7.2-1
debian 14	mercurial	>=0 <4.7.2-1	4.7.2-1
debian 12	mercurial	>=0 <4.7.2-1	4.7.2-1
debian 13	mercurial	>=0 <4.7.2-1	4.7.2-1

Aliases

1. CVE-2018-179832. NVD-2018-179833. OSV-2018-179834. OSV-DEBIAN-2018-179835. GCVE-2018-179836. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2018-17983

References

1. https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mercurial/PYSEC-2018-91.yaml2. https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/5405cb1a79013. https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.7.2_.282018-10-01.29

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