[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: mono-4.0.5-2.fc23

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Tue Dec 29 22:26:22 UTC 2015


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-6dec4e6d5f
2015-12-29 18:54:14.972527
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Name        : mono
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 4.0.5
Release     : 2.fc23
URL         : http://www.mono-project.com
Summary     : Cross-platform, Open Source, .NET development framework
Description :
The Mono runtime implements a JIT engine for the ECMA CLI
virtual machine (as well as a byte code interpreter, the
class loader, the garbage collector, threading system and
metadata access libraries.

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Update Information:

apply patch for security issue CVE-2009-0689 (#1293638)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1293639 - mono: Converting specially crafted string to float causes crash and possible code execution [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1293639
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