suse · CVE-2008-2942

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 12:43:07 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 20:26:46 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2008-2942 severity moderate: SUSE including 7 source package names (mercurial, mercurial-2.3.2-0.9.2, …), 20 product×package rows across 17 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, … (17 product lines)): Known Not Affected 14, Fixed 6.

Description:

Directory traversal vulnerability in patch.py in Mercurial 1.0.1 allows user-assisted attackers to modify arbitrary files via ".." (dot dot) sequences in a patch file.

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