Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Mono, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Mono Unsafe Library Loading Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42174
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RELEASE DATE:
2010-11-12
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Mono, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to Mono loading libraries from the
current directory, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code
by e.g. tricking a user into running a Mono application in a
directory containing a malicious library.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Richard Brooksby
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641915
https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/8e890a3bf80a4620e417814dc14886b1bbd17625
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