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RHEL 7 : dotNET (RHSA-2018:2902)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118127

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updates for rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore, and rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore are now available for .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

.NET Core 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 Core that address several security vulnerabilities are now available. The updated versions are .NET Core 1.1.1 and 1.0.13.

These versions correspond to the October 2018 security release by .NET Core upstream projects.

Security Fix(es) :

* An information disclosure vulnerability exists in .NET Core when authentication information is inadvertently exposed in a redirect (CVE-2018-8292)

For more information, please refer to the upstream docs in the References section.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/88

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2902

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-8292

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118127

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2902.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/16/2018

Updated: 2/8/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8292

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 10/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8292

RHSA: 2018:2902