| Name | CVE-2010-4237 |
| Description | Mercurial before 1.6.4 fails to verify the Common Name field of SSL certificates which allows remote attackers who acquire a certificate signed by a Certificate Authority to perform a man-in-the-middle attack. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 598841 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| mercurial (PTS) | bullseye | 5.6.1-4 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.3.2-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 6.9-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| mercurial | source | (unstable) | 1.6.4-1 | low | | 598841 |
Notes
[lenny] - mercurial <no-dsa> (Minor issue)