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TITLE:
Moonlight Generic Constraints Bypass Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42373

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RELEASE DATE:
2010-11-26

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Moonlight, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the insufficient validation of
arguments passed to generic methods. This can be exploited to
circumvent generic constraints and subsequently bypass security
policies or potentially execute arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Chris Howie

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Novell Bug #654136:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654136

Mono GIT commits:
https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/4905ef1130feb26c3150b28b97e4a96752e0d399
https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/65292a69c837b8a5f7a392d34db63de592153358
https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/cf1ec146f7c6acdc6697032b3aaafc68ffacdcac

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