Amazon Linux AMI : mercurial (ALAS-2016-697)

It was discovered that Mercurial failed to properly check Git sub-repository URLs. A Mercurial repository that includes a Git sub-repository with a specially crafted URL could cause Mercurial to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-3068 The binary delta decoder in Mercurial before 3.7.3 allows remote...

mercurial: convert extension command injection via git repository names

It was discovered that the Mercurial convert extension failed to sanitize special characters in Git repository names. A Git repository with a specially crafted name could cause Mercurial to execute arbitrary code when the Git repository was converted to a Mercurial repository...