Fossil: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Fossil, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code. fossil 2020-11-03 2020-11-03 738220 remote 2.12.1 2.12.1

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

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

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.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Fossil users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-vcs/fossil-2.12.1" CVE-2020-24614 sam_c sam_c