Bug 1594087 (CVE-2018-13347)

Summary:	CVE-2018-13347 mercurial: Buffer underflow in mpatch.c:mpatch_apply()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jlaska, katzj, mads, ndbecker2, pcahyna
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	mercurial 4.6.1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	1594088, 1594089, 1613129
Bug Blocks:	1594086

Description Sam Fowler 2018-06-22 04:43:57 UTC

Mercurial before version 4.6.1 is vulnerable to a buffer underflow in mpatch.c:mpatch_apply().

Upstream Changelog:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.6.1_.282018-06-06.29


Upstream Patch:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/1acfc35d478c

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-06-22 04:44:24 UTC

Created mercurial tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1594088]

Comment 3 Doran Moppert 2018-07-27 04:51:23 UTC

This is related to CVE-2018-13346: this issue is writing before the output buffer, where the other reads past the end of input.  In mercurial 2.6.2, it is present in the apply() function.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:34:49 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:2276 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2276

Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 19:19:04 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-13347