| Name | CVE-2018-17983 |
| Description | cext/manifest.c in Mercurial before 4.7.2 has an out-of-bounds read during parsing of a malformed manifest entry. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| mercurial (PTS) | stretch | 4.0-1+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.0-1+deb9u2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 4.8.2-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye, sid | 5.6.1-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| mercurial | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| mercurial | source | (unstable) | 4.7.2-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
[jessie] - mercurial <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/5405cb1a7901
Crash in CLI tool, no security impact