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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2018-0379-01 Moderate: XML Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2018
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An update for rh-dotnet20-dotnet, rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore, and rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore is now available for .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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

Summary

.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity XML issue .NET Core

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0764 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/52

Package List

.NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore-1.0.9-1.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore-1.0.9-1.el7.x86_64.rpm rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore-debuginfo-1.0.9-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
.NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore-1.1.6-1.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore-1.1.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore-debuginfo-1.1.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
.NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: rh-dotnet20-dotnet-2.0.5-1.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: rh-dotnet20-dotnet-2.0.5-1.el7.x86_64.rpm rh-dotnet20-dotnet-debuginfo-2.0.5-1.el7.x86_64.rpm rh-dotnet20-dotnet-host-2.0.5-1.el7.x86_64.rpm rh-dotnet20-dotnet-runtime-2.0-2.0.5-1.el7.x86_64.rpm rh-dotnet20-dotnet-sdk-2.1-2.1.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
.NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore-1.0.9-1.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore-1.0.9-1.el7.x86_64.rpm rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore-debuginfo-1.0.9-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
.NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore-1.1.6-1.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore-1.1.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore-debuginfo-1.1.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm


Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0379-01
Product: .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0379
Issue date: 2018-03-01

Topic

An update for rh-dotnet20-dotnet, rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore, andrh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore is now available for .NET Core on Red HatEnterprise Linux.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity XML issue .NET Core

Relevant Releases Architectures

.NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

.NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - x86_64

.NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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