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Ubuntu 22.10 & 22.04 LTS: USN-5798-1 Critical dotnet6 Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Mitigating dotnet6 failure potential in Ubuntu via critical patches, guaranteeing stability against deliberately manipulated network packets.
dotnet6 could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

dotnet6 could be made to crash if it received specially crafted

network traffic.

Software Description:

- dotnet6: dotNET CLI tools and runtime

Details:

Johan Gorter discovered that .NET 6 incorrectly processed certain

invalid HTTP requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to

cause a denial of service condition for an exposed endpoint.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update critical Ubuntu network traffic dotnet6

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 22.10:
   aspnetcore-runtime-6.0          6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.10.1
   dotnet-host                             6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.10.1
   dotnet-hostfxr-6.0                   6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.10.1
   dotnet-runtime-6.0                  6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.10.1
   dotnet-sdk-6.0                        6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.10.1
   dotnet6                                   6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.10.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   aspnetcore-runtime-6.0         6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
   dotnet-host                            6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
   dotnet-hostfxr-6.0                  6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
   dotnet-runtime-6.0                 6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
   dotnet-sdk-6.0                       6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
   dotnet6                                  6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.04.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5798-1

CVE-2023-21538

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January 10, 2023

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update critical Ubuntu network traffic dotnet6

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dotnet6/6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dotnet6/6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.04.1

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