National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-4159

Overview

Untrusted search path vulnerability in metadata/loader.c in Mono 2.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.

Description

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path'

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/8e890a3bf80a4620e417814dc14886b1bbd17625

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/8e890a3bf80a4620e417814dc14886b1bbd17625

External Source: MLIST

Name: [mono-patches] 20101012 [mono/mono] d3985be4: Search for dllimported shared libs in the base directory, not cwd.

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-patches/2010-October/177900.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641915

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641915

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-3059

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3059

External Source: BID

Name: 44810

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44810

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mono-project.com/Vulnerabilities#Mono_Runtime_Insecure_Native_Library_Loading

Hyperlink:http://www.mono-project.com/Vulnerabilities#Mono_Runtime_Insecure_Native_Library_Loading

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2010:240

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:240

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 42174

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/42174

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20101110 Re: CVE request: mono loading shared libs from cwd

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128941802415318&w=2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20101110 Re: CVE request: mono loading shared libs from cwd

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128939912716499&w=2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20101110 CVE request: mono loading shared libs from cwd

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128939873515821&w=2