RHEL 7 : .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security update for March 2019 (Important) (RHSA-2019:0544)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122886

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-2019:0544 advisory.

.NET Core is a managed-software framework. It implements the .NET standard APIs and several additional APIs, and it includes a CLR implementation.

New versions of .NET Core that address security vulnerabilities are now available. The updated versions are .NET Core 1.0.15, 1.1.12, 2.1.9, and 2.2.3.

Security Fix(es):

* A tampering vulnerability exists in NuGet software when executed in a Linux or Mac environment.
(CVE-2019-0757)

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.

For more information, please refer to the upstream doc 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-2019:0544.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c3703975

http://www.nessus.org/u?e81f6bbe

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0544

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1685475

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1685718

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1685720

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122886

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-0544.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/18/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: Important

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-2019-0757

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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-runtime-2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet22-dotnet-sdk-2.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet22, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-sdk-2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet22-dotnet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-sdk-2.1.5xx, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet22-dotnet-host-fxr-2.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet22-dotnet-sdk-2.2.1xx, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet22-dotnet-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet22-dotnet-runtime-2.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet22-runtime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-runtime

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: 3/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-0757

CWE: 732

RHSA: 2019:0544