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.NET Framework February 2019 Security and Quality Rollup

February 13, 2019 Feb 13, 2019 02/13/19
Tara Overfield
Updated: February 15, 2019   Updated: February 14, 2019   Yesterday, we released the February 2019 Security and Quality Rollup. Security CVE-2019-0613 – Remote Code Execution Vulnerability This security update resolves a vulnerability in .NET Framework software if the software does not check the source ...

.NET Core February 2019 Updates – 1.0.14, 1.1.11, 2.1.8 and 2.2.2

February 12, 2019 Feb 12, 2019 02/12/19
Lee Coward
The latest .NET Core updates are available on the .NET Core download page. This update is also included in the Visual Studio 15.0.21 (.NET Core 1.0 and 1.1) and 15.9.7 (.NET Core 1.0, 1.1 and 2.1) updates, which is also releasing today. See the .NET Core release notes ( 1.0.14 | 1.1.11 | 2.1.8 | 2.2.2 ) for details on the release including a issues fixed and affected packages.

.NET Core January 2019 Updates – 2.1.7 and 2.2.1

January 8, 2019 Jan 8, 2019 01/8/19
Lee Coward
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core January 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. Security CVE-2019-0545: .NET Core Information Disclosure Vulnerability The security update addresses the vulnerability by enforcing Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) configuration to prevent its bypass in .NET ...

.NET Framework January 2019 Security and Quality Rollup

January 8, 2019 Jan 8, 2019 01/8/19
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the January 2019 Security and Quality Rollup. Security CVE-2019-0545 – Windows Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework that may cause an information disclosure that allows bypassing Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) configurations. An ...

.NET Framework December 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

December 11, 2018 Dec 11, 2018 12/11/18
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the December 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Security CVE-2018-8540 – Windows Remote Code Execution Vulnerability This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework that could allow remote code execution when Microsoft .NET Framework doesn't validate input correctly. The attacker who ...

.NET Framework November 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

November 13, 2018 Nov 13, 2018 11/13/18
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the November 2018 Security and Quality Rollup.SecurityNo new security fixes. See .NET Framework September 2018 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates.Quality and ReliabilityThis release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.CLRWFWinformsWPFNote: Additional information on these ...

Secure ASP.NET ViewState

September 23, 2016 Sep 23, 2016 09/23/16
Jeffrey Fritz
During an appearance on the .NET Rocks podcast last week, a question was raised about securely sending information through ASP.NET ViewState.  I responded to the question by indicating that the typical security concern for web content is not to trust any content submitted from the web, including ViewState.  After that podcast was published, ...

Introducing IdentityServer4 for authentication and access control in ASP.NET Core

September 19, 2016 Sep 19, 2016 09/19/16
Jeffrey Fritz
This is a guest post by Brock Allen and Dominick Baier. They are security consultants, speakers, and the authors of many popular open source security projects, including IdentityServer. Modern applications need modern identity. The protocols used for implementing features like authentication, single sign-on, API access control and federation ...