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

Synopsis

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

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for dotnet is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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 security vulnerabilities are now available. The updated versions are .NET Core SDK 2.1.509 and Runtime 2.1.13.

Security Fix(es):

• dotnet: System.Net.Sockets.dll Socket.ConnectAsync Denial of Service (CVE-2019-1301)
  

Default inclusions for applications built with .NET Core have been updated to reference the newest versions and their security fixes.

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.

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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1750793 - CVE-2019-1301 dotnet: System.Net.Sockets.dll Socket.ConnectAsync Denial of Service

CVEs

• CVE-2019-1301

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate