RHSA-2020:2938 — Security Advisory

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 impact of Critical. 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.

.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 a security vulnerability is now available. The updated version is .NET Core Runtime 2.1.20 and SDK 2.1.516.

Security Fix(es):

• .NT 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.