CVE-2007-5197

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the Mono.Math.BigInteger class in Mono 1.2.5.1 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to Reduce in Montgomery-based Pow methods.

Affected products

mono: through 1.2.5.1; 1.0, 1.0.5, 1.1.4, 1.1.8.3, 1.1.13, 1.1.13.4 (+5)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=134361&action=view
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197067
http://secunia.com/advisories/27439
http://secunia.com/advisories/27493
http://secunia.com/advisories/27511
http://secunia.com/advisories/27583
http://secunia.com/advisories/27612
http://secunia.com/advisories/27639
http://secunia.com/advisories/27937
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1397
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-10.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:218

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