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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2008-4297 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (mercurial), 5 status rows across 5 suites (dapper, feisty, gutsy, hardy, upstream): ignored 4, released 1.
Mercurial before 1.0.2 does not enforce the allowpull permission setting for a pull operation from hgweb, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files from a repository via an "hg pull" request.