USN-6959-1: .NET vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Packages

• dotnet8 - .NET CLI tools and runtime

Details

It was discovered that .NET suffered from an information disclosure
vulnerability. An attacker could potentially use this issue to
read targeted email messages.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.04

• aspnetcore-runtime-8.0 - 8.0.8-0ubuntu1~24.04.1
• dotnet-host-8.0 - 8.0.8-0ubuntu1~24.04.1
• dotnet-hostfxr-8.0 - 8.0.8-0ubuntu1~24.04.1
• dotnet-runtime-8.0 - 8.0.8-0ubuntu1~24.04.1
• dotnet-sdk-8.0 - 8.0.108-0ubuntu1~24.04.1
• dotnet8 - 8.0.108-8.0.8-0ubuntu1~24.04.1

Ubuntu 22.04

• aspnetcore-runtime-8.0 - 8.0.8-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
• dotnet-host-8.0 - 8.0.8-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
• dotnet-hostfxr-8.0 - 8.0.8-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
• dotnet-runtime-8.0 - 8.0.8-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
• dotnet-sdk-8.0 - 8.0.108-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
• dotnet8 - 8.0.108-8.0.8-0ubuntu1~22.04.1

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

References

• CVE-2024-38167