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Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : mono vulnerability (USN-357-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27937

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE security team discovered that the System.CodeDom.Compiler classes used temporary files in an insecure way. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
Under some circumstances, a local attacker could also exploit this to inject arbitrary code into running Mono processes.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/357-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27937

File Name: ubuntu_USN-357-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-classlib-1.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-jay, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-devel, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-jit, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-classlib-1.0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-assemblies-base, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-classlib-2.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-classlib-2.0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-gmcs, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-gac, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-mcs

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5072

USN: 357-1