GSD-2008-2942

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:23
Details
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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Aliases
CVE-2008-2942
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