Synopsis

Important: dotnet5.0 security and bugfix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for .NET 5.0 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 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 that address a security vulnerability are now available. The updated versions are .NET SDK 5.0.103 and .NET Runtime 5.0.3.

Security Fix(es):

• dotnet: certificate chain building recursion Denial of Service (CVE-2021-1721)

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 - 1926918 - CVE-2021-1721 dotnet: certificate chain building recursion Denial of Service

CVEs

• CVE-2021-1721

References