RHSA-2023:0079 — Security Advisory

An update for .NET 6.0 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 6.0.113 and .NET Runtime 6.0.13.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: dotnet6.0 (6.0.113). (BZ#2154458)

Security Fix(es):

• dotnet: Parsing an empty HTTP response as a JSON.NET JObject causes a stack overflow and crashes a process (CVE-2023-21538)

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.