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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2020:2988-01 Critical: .NET Core RCE

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Calendar Grey July 16, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A vital update for .NET Core has emerged for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Address potential remote code execution vulnerabilities without delay.
An update for .NET Core is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 several new APIs, and it includes a CLR implementation.
New versions of .NET Core that address a security vulnerability are now available. The updated version is .NET Core Runtime 2.1.20 and SDK 2.1.516.
Security Fix(es):
* .NET Core: XML source markup processing remote code execution (CVE-2020-1147)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical remote code execution Red Hat Enterprise .NET Core

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1147 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1):
Source: dotnet-2.1.516-1.el8_1.src.rpm
x86_64: dotnet-debuginfo-2.1.516-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm dotnet-debugsource-2.1.516-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm dotnet-host-fxr-2.1-2.1.20-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm dotnet-host-fxr-2.1-debuginfo-2.1.20-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm dotnet-runtime-2.1-2.1.20-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm dotnet-runtime-2.1-debuginfo-2.1.20-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm dotnet-sdk-2.1-2.1.516-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm dotnet-sdk-2.1.5xx-2.1.516-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm dotnet-sdk-2.1.5xx-debuginfo-2.1.516-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2988-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2988
Issue date: 2020-07-16

Topic

An update for .NET Core is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Critical. 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical remote code execution Red Hat Enterprise .NET Core

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1856929 - CVE-2020-1147 dotnet: XML source markup processing remote code execution

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