RHEL 9 : .NET 6.0 (RHSA-2023:4449)

high Nessus Plugin ID 179308

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for .NET 6.0.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4449 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 6.0.120 and .NET Runtime 6.0.20.

Security Fix(es):

* dotnet: .NET Kestrel: Denial of Service processing X509 Certificates (CVE-2023-29331)

* dotnet: vulnerability exists in NuGet where a potential race condition can lead to a symlink attack (CVE-2023-29337)

* dotnet: Remote Code Execution - Source generators issue can lead to a crash due to unmanaged heap corruption (CVE-2023-33128)

* dotnet: race condition in Core SignInManager<TUser> PasswordSignInAsync method (CVE-2023-33170)

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 RHEL .NET 6.0 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:4449.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f832d1e7

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2212617

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2212618

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213703

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2221854

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4449

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 179308

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4449.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-33170

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-targeting-pack-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aspnetcore-runtime-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-runtime-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-apphost-pack-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-sdk-6.0-source-built-artifacts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-sdk-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aspnetcore-targeting-pack-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-templates-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:netstandard-targeting-pack-2.1, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-hostfxr-6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-host

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: 8/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29331, CVE-2023-29337, CVE-2023-33128, CVE-2023-33170

CWE: 362

RHSA: 2023:4449