Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities

Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mercurial, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code. mercurial 2016-12-07 2016-12-07 533008 544332 578546 582238 remote 3.8.4 3.8.4

Mercurial is a distributed source control management system.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mercurial. Please review the CVE identifier and bug reports referenced for details.

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All mercurial users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-vcs/mercurial-3.8.4"

CVE-2014-9390 CVE-2014-9462 CVE-2016-3068 CVE-2016-3069 CVE-2016-3105 CVE-2016-3630 BlueKnight b-man