RHEL 8 : .NET 5.0 (RHSA-2022:0830)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 158816

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-2022:0830 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 security vulnerabilities are now available. The updated versions are .NET SDK 5.0.212 and .NET Runtime 5.0.15.

Security Fix(es):

* dotnet: ASP.NET Denial of Service via FormPipeReader (CVE-2022-24464)

* dotnet: double parser stack buffer overrun (CVE-2022-24512)

* brotli: buffer overflow when input chunk is larger than 2GiB (CVE-2020-8927)

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 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?a4db1bea

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0830

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1879225

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2061847

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2061854

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 158816

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0830.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24512

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8927

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aspnetcore-targeting-pack-5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-apphost-pack-5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-templates-5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aspnetcore-runtime-5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-hostfxr-5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-runtime-5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-targeting-pack-5.0, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-sdk-5.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-sdk-5.0-source-built-artifacts

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: 3/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8927, CVE-2022-24464, CVE-2022-24512

CWE: 1173, 120, 130

RHSA: 2022:0830