Ubuntu Security Notice USN-553-1
4th 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 version:
- 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-2.0 1.1.13.6-0ubuntu3.3
- mono-classlib-1.0 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.