Fossil: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202011-04

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Fossil, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Affected packages

dev-vcs/fossil on all architectures
Affected versions < 2.12.1
Unaffected versions >= 2.12.1

Background

Fossil is a simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Fossil. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted repository using Fossil, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Fossil users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-vcs/fossil-2.12.1"
 

References

Release date
November 03, 2020

Latest revision
November 03, 2020: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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