Ubuntu Security Notice USN-397-1

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-397-1 December 20, 2006
mono vulnerability
CVE-2006-6104
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Ubuntu 6.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
mono-classlib-1.0 1.1.13.6-0ubuntu3.2
mono-classlib-2.0 1.1.13.6-0ubuntu3.2

Ubuntu 6.10:
libmono-system-web1.0-cil 1.1.17.1-1ubuntu7.1
libmono-system-web2.0-cil 1.1.17.1-1ubuntu7.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any mono web
applications to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Jose Ramon Palanco discovered that the mono System.Web class did not
consistently verify local file paths. As a result, the source code for
mono web applications could be retrieved remotely, possibly leading to
further compromise via the application's source.