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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:21:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE id request mercurial:Insufficient input
 validation


Out of curiosity, what attack scenarios exist for this issue?  If an
attacker has control over the patch already, then code execution on the
system already seems likely.  Or is the impact mostly limited to "compile
farms" and limited-access user accounts?

- Steve


======================================================
Name: CVE-2008-2942
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2942
Reference: CONFIRM:http://www.selenic.com/hg/rev/87c704ac92d4
Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20080630 CVE id request mercurial:Insufficient input validation
Reference: URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/1

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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