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Gentoo: GLSA-200711-10 Critical: Mono Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2007
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Mono's BigInteger faces a vulnerability with buffer overflow; update to address critical threat of arbitrary code execution.
Mono's BigInteger implementation contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200711-10
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: High
     Title: Mono: Buffer overflow
      Date: November 07, 2007
      Bugs: #197067
        ID: 200711-10


Synopsis
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Mono's BigInteger implementation contains a buffer overflow
vulnerability that might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and
server applications on various platforms.

Affected packages
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     Package        /   Vulnerable   /                      Unaffected
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  1  dev-lang/mono     < 1.2.5.1-r1                      >= 1.2.5.1-r1

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IOActive discovered an error in the Mono.Math.BigInteger class, in the
re...
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