RHEL 7 : dotNET (RHSA-2018:3676)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119413

Synopsis

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

Description

An update for rh-dotnet21-dotnet is 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.

A new version of .NET Core that addresses a security vulnerability is now available. The updated version is .NET Core 2.1.5.

Security Fix(es) :

* .NET Core: Arbitrary file and directory creation (CVE-2018-8416)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3676

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-8416

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119413

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-3676.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2018

Updated: 6/11/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-runtime-2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-sdk-2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-dotnet21-dotnet-sdk-2.1.5xx, 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: 11/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8416

RHSA: 2018:3676