RHEL 7 : rh-dotnet60-dotnet (RHSA-2023:5705)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 183191

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-2023:5705 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 6.0 to SDK 6.0.123 and Runtime 6.0.23.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-dotnet60-dotnet (6.0.123).
(BZ#2242122)

Security Fix(es):

* HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset Attack) (CVE-2023-44487)

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?26889865

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

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2023-003

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242803

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5705

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 183191

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-5705.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/16/2023

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44487

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 9.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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: 10/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-44487

CWE: 400

IAVB: 2023-B-0083-S

RHSA: 2023:5705