Bug 1594083 (CVE-2018-13348) - CVE-2018-13348 mercurial: Improper length check in mpatch.c
Summary: CVE-2018-13348 mercurial: Improper length check in mpatch.c
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-13348
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1594084 1594085
Blocks: 1594086
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Reported: 2018-06-22 04:35 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:42 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: mercurial 4.6.1
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Last Closed: 2018-07-27 04:51:52 UTC
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-06-22 04:35:41 UTC 
Mercurial before version 4.6.1 does not properly check the length of binary patch data.


Upstream Changelog:

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


Upstream Patches:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/90a274965de7
Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-06-22 04:36:08 UTC 
Created mercurial tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1594084]
Comment 3 Doran Moppert 2018-07-27 04:47:36 UTC 
In earlier versions of mercurial (inc 2.6.2), the pointer was maintained at the end of the region that would be read, so overflow was not possible.
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