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TITLE:
mono-debugger LD_LIBRARY_PATH Security Issues

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42348

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RELEASE DATE:
2010-11-22

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DESCRIPTION:
Two security issues have been reported in mono-debugger, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issues are caused due to the mdb and mdb-symbolreader
scripts incorrectly setting the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
This can be exploited to gain escalated privileges e.g. by tricking a
user into running the scripts in a directory containing a malicious
library.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.8.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Raphael Geissert

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Mono Project:
http://www.mono-project.com/Vulnerabilities#mono-debugger_Insecure_Use_of_LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Debian Bug #598299:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598299

Novell Bug #647353:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647353

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