CVE-2014-9462 | HackTesting

The _validaterepo function in sshpeer in Mercurial before 3.2.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted repository name in a clone command.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-19

http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2015/3/17/this-new-vulnerability-mercurial-command-injection-cve-2014-9462.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00085.html

http://www.osvdb.org/119816

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3257