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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : .NET vulnerability (USN-6362-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181319

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6362-1 advisory.

 Kevin Jones discovered that .NET did not properly process certain X.509 certificates. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6362-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181319

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6362-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/12/2023

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2023-36799

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-sdk-6.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:netstandard-targeting-pack-2.1-7.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-hostfxr-7.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:aspnetcore-runtime-6.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:aspnetcore-runtime-7.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-targeting-pack-7.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-runtime-6.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:aspnetcore-targeting-pack-6.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-apphost-pack-7.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-apphost-pack-6.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:netstandard-targeting-pack-2.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-host-7.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-templates-7.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:aspnetcore-targeting-pack-7.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-hostfxr-6.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-templates-6.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-runtime-7.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-sdk-6.0-source-built-artifacts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-sdk-7.0-source-built-artifacts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-host, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-targeting-pack-6.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dotnet-sdk-7.0

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-36799

IAVA: 2023-A-0475-S

USN: 6362-1