RHEL 8 : dotnet (RHSA-2019:1259)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 125347

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1259 advisory.

- dotnet: NuGet Tampering Vulnerability (CVE-2019-0757)

- dotnet: timeouts for regular expressions are not enforced (CVE-2019-0820)

- dotnet: infinite loop in Uri.TryCreate leading to ASP.Net Core Denial of Service (CVE-2019-0980)

- dotnet: crash in IPAddress.TryCreate leading to ASP.Net Core Denial of Service (CVE-2019-0981)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?09328287

http://www.nessus.org/u?09aa5ba9

http://www.nessus.org/u?0d253c56

http://www.nessus.org/u?189728f9

http://www.nessus.org/u?1fa714df

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1259

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=1696836

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1705502

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1705504

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1705506

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1710068

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1712471

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 125347

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1259.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/23/2019

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

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:dotnet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-sdk-2.1.5xx, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-sdk-2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-runtime-2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-host-fxr-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: 5/22/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-0757, CVE-2019-0820, CVE-2019-0980, CVE-2019-0981

CWE: 400, 732

RHSA: 2019:1259