RHSA-2018:2684 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updates for rh-dotnet21 and rh-dotnet21-dotnet 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 Low.

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.

A new version of .NET Core that addresses several security vulnerabilities is now available. The updated version of the runtime is 2.1.4. The updated version of the SDK is 2.1.402.

These versions correspond to the September 2018 security release by .NET Core upstream projects.

Security Fix(es):

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

For more information, please refer to the upstream docs:

• .NET Core 2.1.4: https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/1932

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 - 1621889 - .NET Core applications get oom killed on Kubernetes/OpenShift

CVEs

(none)

References

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