USN-553-1: Mono vulnerability

Releases

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

Packages

• 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

• mono-classlib-2.0 - 1.1.13.6-0ubuntu3.3
• mono-classlib-1.0 - 1.1.13.6-0ubuntu3.3

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

References

• CVE-2007-5197