SUSE-SU-2015:0836-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2015-03-20 15:26 - Updated: 2026-09-20 12:02
Summary
Security update for mercurial
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for mercurial
Description of the patch: Mercurial was updated to fix a command injection via sshpeer._validaterepo() (CVE-2014-9462, bnc#923070):
Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-184
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12:mercurial-0:2.8.2-3.1.ppc64le —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12:mercurial-0:2.8.2-3.1.s390x —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12:mercurial-0:2.8.2-3.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:mercurial-0:2.8.2-3.1.ppc64le —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:mercurial-0:2.8.2-3.1.s390x —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:mercurial-0:2.8.2-3.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12:mercurial-0:2.8.2-3.1.ppc64le —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12:mercurial-0:2.8.2-3.1.s390x —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12:mercurial-0:2.8.2-3.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12:mercurial-0:2.8.2-3.1.ppc64le —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12:mercurial-0:2.8.2-3.1.s390x —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12:mercurial-0:2.8.2-3.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact moderate

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