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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : mono vulnerability (USN-553-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 29238

Synopsis

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

Description

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.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/553-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 29238

File Name: ubuntu_USN-553-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-cscompmgd7.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-cscompmgd8.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-data-tds1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-data-tds2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-firebirdsql1.7-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-ldap1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-ldap2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-microsoft-build2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-microsoft7.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-microsoft8.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-npgsql1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-npgsql2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-oracle1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-oracle2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-peapi1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-peapi2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-relaxng1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-relaxng2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-security1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-security2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-sharpzip0.6-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-jit, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-jit-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-mcs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-mjs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-runtime, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-utils, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-accessibility1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-accessibility2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-bytefx0.7.6.1-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-bytefx0.7.6.2-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-c5-1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-cairo1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-cairo2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-corlib1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-corlib2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-sharpzip0.84-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-sharpzip2.6-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-sqlite1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-sqlite2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-system-data1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-system-data2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-system-ldap1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-system-ldap2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-system-messaging1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-system-messaging2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-system-runtime1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-system-web1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-system-web2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-system1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-system2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-winforms1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono-winforms2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono1.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmono2.0-cil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-assemblies-base, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-classlib-1.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-classlib-1.0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-classlib-2.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-classlib-2.0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-devel, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-gac, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-gmcs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mono-jay, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5197

BID: 26279

CWE: 119

USN: 553-1