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<patchinfo incident="6289">
<issue id="1071715" tracker="bnc">VUL-0: CVE-2017-17458: mercurial: arbitrary command execution in mercurial repo with a git submodule</issue>
<issue id="2017-17458" tracker="cve" />
<category>security</category>
<rating>moderate</rating>
<packager>tiwai</packager>
<description>This update for mercurial fixes the following issues:
- CVE-2017-17458: In Mercurial before 4.4.1, it is possible that a specially malformed repository can cause Git subrepositories to run arbitrary code in the form of a .git/hooks/post-update script checked into the repository. Typical use of Mercurial prevents construction of such repositories, but they can be created programmatically. (bsc#1071715):
</description>
<summary>Security update for mercurial</summary>
</patchinfo>