Technical Description

SuSE has released security updates to address a vulnerability identified in Mono. This flaw could allow malicious users to conduct symlink attacks or inject arbitrary code into the running Mono processes. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2006-3911

Affected Products

Novell Linux Desktop 9
Open Enterprise Server
SLE SDK 10
SLES SDK 9
SUSE LINUX 10.1
SUSE LINUX 10.0
SUSE LINUX 9.3
SUSE SLED 10
SUSE SLES 10

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4817
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Dec/0001.html

ChangeLog

2006-12-02 : Initial release

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