RHEL 7 : .NET 6.0 (RHSA-2023:0078)

high Nessus Plugin ID 169921

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-2023:0078 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 6.0.113 and .NET Runtime 6.0.13.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-dotnet60-dotnet (6.0.113).
(BZ#2154455)

Security Fix(es):

* dotnet: Parsing an empty HTTP response as a JSON.NET JObject causes a stack overflow and crashes a process (CVE-2023-21538)

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?c585ffa3

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0078

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2158342

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 169921

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-0078.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/11/2023

Updated: 6/4/2024

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-21538

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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-dotnet60-aspnetcore-targeting-pack-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet60-dotnet-targeting-pack-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet60-dotnet-sdk-6.0, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet60-dotnet-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet60-aspnetcore-runtime-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet60-dotnet-templates-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet60-dotnet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet60-netstandard-targeting-pack-2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet60-dotnet-runtime-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet60-dotnet-hostfxr-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet60-dotnet-apphost-pack-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet60-dotnet-sdk-6.0-source-built-artifacts

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: 1/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-21538

CWE: 121

IAVA: 2023-A-0028-S

RHSA: 2023:0078