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Out-of-bounds Read Affecting mercurial package, versions *

medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.24% (65th percentile)
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NVD
9.1 critical
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SUSE
6.5 medium
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Red Hat
4.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-MERCURIAL-311050
  • published 4 Oct 2018
  • disclosed 4 Oct 2018
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Introduced: 4 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-17983 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-125 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:16.04 mercurial.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mercurial package and not the mercurial package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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