Important: dotnet3.1 security update

Synopsis

Important: dotnet3.1 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for dotnet3.1 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 3.1.104 and .NET Core Runtime 3.1.4.

Security Fixes:

• dotnet: Denial of service via untrusted input (CVE-2020-1108)
  
• dotnet: Denial of service due to infinite loop (CVE-2020-1161)
  

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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1827643 - CVE-2020-1108 dotnet: Denial of service via untrusted input
• BZ - 1827645 - CVE-2020-1161 dotnet: Denial of service due to infinite loop

CVEs

• CVE-2020-1108
• CVE-2020-1161

References

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