Moderate: .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security update

Synopsis

Moderate: .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

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.

Description

.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

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• dotNET on RHEL (for RHEL Server) 1 x86_64
• dotNET on RHEL (for RHEL Workstation) 1 x86_64
• dotNET on RHEL (for RHEL Compute Node) 1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1636274 - CVE-2018-8292 .NET Core: information disclosure due to authentication information exposed in a redirect

CVEs

• CVE-2018-8292

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/88