CVE-2011-0990: novell moonlight Race Condition

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-0990 is a medium (CVSS 5.8) Race Condition vulnerability in novell moonlight. EPSS estimates a 2.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 13-04-2011
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Race condition in the FastCopy optimization in the Array.Copy method in metadata/icall.c in Mono, when Moonlight 2.x before 2.4.1 or 3.x before 3.99.3 is used, allows remote attackers to trigger a buffer overflow and modify internal data structures, and cause a denial of service (plugin crash) or corrupt the internal state of the security manager, via a crafted media file in which a thread makes a change after a type check but before a copy action.

• CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.