Security update for mercurial

SUSE Security Update: Security update for mercurial
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:1010-1
Rating: important
References: #973175 #973176 #973177
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12

  • An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

    Description:

    mercurial was updated to fix three security issues.

    These security issues were fixed:
    - CVE-2016-3069: Arbitrary code execution when converting Git repos
    (bsc#973176).
    - CVE-2016-3068: Arbitrary code execution with Git subrepos (bsc#973177).
    - CVE-2016-3630: Remote code execution in binary delta decoding
    (bsc#973175).

    Patch Instructions:

    To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
    Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2016-596=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2016-596=1

    To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1 (ppc64le s390x x86_64):
      • mercurial-2.8.2-6.1
      • mercurial-debuginfo-2.8.2-6.1
      • mercurial-debugsource-2.8.2-6.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64):
      • mercurial-2.8.2-6.1
      • mercurial-debuginfo-2.8.2-6.1
      • mercurial-debugsource-2.8.2-6.1

    References: