PT-2010-5329 · Novell · Mono

Published 2010-11-17 · Updated 2010-12-09 · CVE-2010-4159

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mono versions 2.8 and earlier

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory due to an untrusted search path vulnerability in metadata/loader.c.

Recommendations For Mono versions 2.8 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-4159

Affected Products

Mono

References · 16

• https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/8e890a3bf80a4620e417814dc14886b1bbd17625 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42174 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4159 · Security Note
• http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-patches/2010-October/177900.html · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4159 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:240 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-4159 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3059 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128939912716499&w=2 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4159 · Note
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641915 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128939873515821&w=2 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/44810 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128941802415318&w=2 · Note