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RHEL 7 : .NET 5.0 on RHEL 7 (RHSA-2021:2351)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 150387

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2351 advisory.

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

 New versions of .NET that address a security vulnerability are now available. The updated versions are .NET SDK 5.0.204 and .NET Runtime 5.0.7.

 Security Fix(es):

 * dotnet: ASP.NET Core Client Disconnect Denial of Service (CVE-2021-31957)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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 affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5c9e23b7

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2351

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1966990

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 150387

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-2351.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/9/2021

Updated: 6/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2021-31957

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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-dotnet50-dotnet-runtime-5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet50-dotnet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet50-dotnet-apphost-pack-5.0, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet50-aspnetcore-runtime-5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet50-netstandard-targeting-pack-2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet50-dotnet-targeting-pack-5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet50-aspnetcore-targeting-pack-5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet50-dotnet-templates-5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet50-dotnet-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet50-dotnet-sdk-5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet50-dotnet-hostfxr-5.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-31957

CWE: 772

IAVA: 2021-A-0274-S, 2021-A-0278-S

RHSA: 2021:2351