mono vulnerability

4 December 2007

mono vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

Software Description

• mono

Details

It was discovered that Mono did not correctly bounds check certain BigInteger actions. Remote attackers could exploit this to crash a Mono application or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.10

libmono-corlib1.0-cil - 1.2.4-6ubuntu6.1

libmono-corlib2.0-cil - 1.2.4-6ubuntu6.1

libmono-security1.0-cil - 1.2.4-6ubuntu6.1

libmono-security2.0-cil - 1.2.4-6ubuntu6.1

Ubuntu 7.04

libmono-corlib1.0-cil - 1.2.3.1-1ubuntu1.1

libmono-corlib2.0-cil - 1.2.3.1-1ubuntu1.1

libmono-security1.0-cil - 1.2.3.1-1ubuntu1.1

libmono-security2.0-cil - 1.2.3.1-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 6.10

libmono-corlib1.0-cil - 1.1.17.1-1ubuntu7.2

libmono-corlib2.0-cil - 1.1.17.1-1ubuntu7.2

libmono-security1.0-cil - 1.1.17.1-1ubuntu7.2

libmono-security2.0-cil - 1.1.17.1-1ubuntu7.2

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

mono-classlib-1.0 - 1.1.13.6-0ubuntu3.3

mono-classlib-2.0 - 1.1.13.6-0ubuntu3.3

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2007-5197