RHSA-2021:2036 — Security Advisory

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.

.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 5.0.203 and .NET Runtime 5.0.6.

Security Fix(es):

• dotnet: .NET Core single-file application privilege escalation (CVE-2021-31204)

In order for the update to be complete, self-contained applications deployed using previous versions need to be recompiled and redeployed.

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.