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RHEL 7 : .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHSA-2018:3676)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119413

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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-2018:3676 advisory.

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

 A new version of .NET Core that addresses a security vulnerability is now available. The updated version is .NET Core 2.1.5.

 Security Fix(es):

 * .NET Core: Arbitrary file and directory creation (CVE-2018-8416)

 For more information, please refer to the upstream docs 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-2018:3676.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?69cf01e2

http://www.nessus.org/u?fe37e3a1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3676

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1649693

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119413

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-3676.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2018

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8416

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-sdk-2.1.5xx, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-runtime-2.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-sdk-2.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8416

RHSA: 2018:3676