RHSA-2018:0379 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for rh-dotnet20-dotnet, rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore, and rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore 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.

Description

.NET Core is a managed software framework. It implements a subset of the .NET framework APIs and includes a CLR implementation.

New versions of .NET Core that address several security vulnerabilities are now available. The updated versions are .NET Core 1.0.9, 1.1.6, and 2.0.5.

Security Fix(es):

• .NET Core: Improper processing of XML documents can cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-0764)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, 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

• 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 - 1533730 - CVE-2018-0764 .NET Core: Improper processing of XML documents can cause a denial of service

CVEs

• CVE-2018-0764

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/52