CVE-2011-0991

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-0991
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-04-13 21:55:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionUse-after-free vulnerability in Mono, when Moonlight 2.x before 2.4.1 or 3.x before 3.99.3 is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to finalizing and then resurrecting a DynamicMethod instance.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mono Mono All All All All
Application Novell Moonlight 2.0 All All All
Application Novell Moonlight 2.3.0 All All All
Application Novell Moonlight 2.31 All All All
Application Novell Moonlight 2.4 All All All
Application Novell Moonlight 3.0 All All All
Application Novell Moonlight 3.99 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Vulnerabilities - Mono af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mono-project.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Moonlight Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Moonlight Prior to 2.4.1/3.99.3 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
openSUSE-SU-2011:0313-1 (critical): moonlight security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
oss-security - Moonlight release 2.4.1 with security fixes af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com Patch
Bug 667077 – VUL-0: Moonlight Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.novell.com Patch
Don't use finalization to cleanup dynamic methods. · mono/mono@3f8ee42 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch
Implement a reference queue API. · mono/mono@8eb1189 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch
Bug 660422 – Dynamic method can be finalized before it is called af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.novell.com
SUSE update for moonlight - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Don't use finalization to cleanup dynamic methods. · mono/mono@89d1455 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch
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