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Fedora 23 Mono Advisory: CVE-2009-0689 Critical Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey December 29, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Implement essential update for Fedora 23 to address the mono vulnerability designated CVE-2009-0689, safeguarding against possible system failures and security breaches.
apply patch for security issue CVE-2009-0689 (#1293638)

Summary

The Mono runtime implements a JIT engine for the ECMA CLI

virtual machine (as well as a byte code interpreter, the

class loader, the garbage collector, threading system and

metadata access libraries.

Update Information:

apply patch for security issue CVE-2009-0689 (#1293638)

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora code execution critical update CVE-2009-0689

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1293639 - mono: Converting specially crafted string to float causes crash and possible code execution [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1293639

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mono' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: mono
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 4.0.5
Release: 2.fc23
URL: https://www.mono-project.com/
Summary: Cross-platform, Open Source, .NET development framework

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora code execution critical update CVE-2009-0689

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