Bug 654403 (CVE-2010-4159)

Summary: CVE-2010-4159 mono: untrusted search path vulnerability
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: chkr, itamar, lxtnow, paul
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Description Vincent Danen 2010-11-17 19:08:25 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-4159 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2010-4159
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4159
Assigned: 20101104
Reference: MLIST:[mono-patches] 20101012 [mono/mono] d3985be4: Search for dllimported shared libs in the base directory, not cwd.
Reference: URL: http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-patches/2010-October/177900.html
Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20101110 CVE request: mono loading shared libs from cwd
Reference: URL: http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128939873515821&w=2
Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20101110 Re: CVE request: mono loading shared libs from cwd
Reference: URL: http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128939912716499&w=2
Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20101110 Re: CVE request: mono loading shared libs from cwd
Reference: URL: http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128941802415318&w=2
Reference: CONFIRM: http://www.mono-project.com/Vulnerabilities#Mono_Runtime_Insecure_Native_Library_Loading
Reference: CONFIRM: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641915
Reference: CONFIRM: https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/8e890a3bf80a4620e417814dc14886b1bbd17625
Reference: BID:44810
Reference: URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44810
Reference: SECUNIA:42174
Reference: URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/42174

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.
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-11-17 19:12:22 UTC 
Created mono tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 654405]