RHEL 7 : .NET Core 2.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHSA-2021:3144)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 152590

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-2021:3144 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.

New versions of .NET Core that address a security vulnerability are now available. The updated versions are .NET Core SDK 2.1.525 and .NET Core Runtime 2.1.29.

Security Fix(es):

* dotnet: Dump file created world-readable (CVE-2021-34485)

Default inclusions for applications built with .NET Core have been updated to reference the newest versions and their security fixes.

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?b3f4b83c

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3144

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1990286

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 152590

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-3144.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/16/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-34485

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/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, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-sdk-2.1, 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-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: 8/11/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-34485

CWE: 732

IAVA: 2021-A-0379, 2021-A-0380-S

RHSA: 2021:3144