RHEL 7 : .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHSA-2018:0522)

high Nessus Plugin ID 108395

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0522 advisory.

.NET Core is a managed software framework. It implements a subset of the .NET framework APIs and includes a CLR implementation.

New versions of .NET Core that address several security vulnerabilities are now available. The updated versions are .NET Core 1.0.10, 1.1.7, and 2.0.6.

These correspond to the March 2018 security release by .NET Core upstream projects.

Security Fix(es):

* .NET Core: Hash Collision Denial of Service (CVE-2018-0875)

Red Hat would like to thank Ben Adams (Illyriad Games) for reporting this issue.

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0522.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 108395

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0522.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/16/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-0875

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet20-dotnet-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet20-dotnet, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet20-dotnet-sdk-2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet20-dotnet-runtime-2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0875

RHSA: 2018:0522

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