.NET 8.0.1 - January 09, 2024

The .NET 8.0.1 and .NET SDK 8.0.101 releases are available for download. The latest 8.0 release is always listed at .NET 8.0 Releases.

Downloads

1. Includes the .NET Runtime and ASP.NET Core Runtime
2. For hosting stand-alone apps on Windows Servers. Includes the ASP.NET Core Module for IIS and can be installed separately on servers without installing .NET Runtime.

The .NET SDK includes a matching updated .NET Runtime. Downloading the Runtime or ASP.NET Core packages is not needed when installing the SDK.

You can check your .NET SDK version by running the following command. The example version shown is for this release.

$ dotnet --version
8.0.101

Docker Images

The .NET Docker images have been updated for this release. The .NET Docker samples show various ways to use .NET and Docker together. You can use the following command to try running the latest .NET 8.0 release in containers:

docker run --rm mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/samples

The following repos have been updated.

• dotnet/sdk: .NET SDK
• dotnet/aspnet: ASP.NET Core Runtime
• dotnet/runtime: .NET Runtime
• dotnet/runtime-deps: .NET Runtime Dependencies
• dotnet/samples: .NET Samples

Note: The .NET 8.0 SDK container images contain version 7.3 RC 1 of PowerShell. It is expected that the 7.3 GA release of PowerShell will be included in these images as part of the December servicing release.

Notable Changes

.NET 8.0 Blog

.NET 8.0.1 release carries security and non-security fixes.

CVE-2024-0056 - Microsoft.Data.SqlClient and System.Data.SqlClient SQL Data provider Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET's System.Data.SqlClient and Microsoft.Data.SqlClient NuGet Packages. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to address this vulnerability.

A vulnerability exists in the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient and System.Data.SqlClient SQL Data provider where an attackercan perform an AiTM (adversary-in-the-middle) attack between the SQL client and the SQL server. This may allow the attacker to steal authentication credentials intended for the database server, even if the connection is established over an encrypted channel like TLS.

CVE-2024-0057- .NET Security Feature bypass Vulnerability

Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET 6.0, .NET 7.0 and .NET 8.0 . This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to address this vulnerability.

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Microsoft .NET Framework-based applications use X.509 chain building APIs but do not completely validate the X.509 certificate due to a logic flaw. An attacker could present an arbitrary untrusted certificate with malformed signatures, triggering a bug in the framework. The framework will correctly report that X.509 chain building failed, but it will return an incorrect reason code for the failure. Applications which utilize this reason code to make their own chain building trust decisions may inadvertently treat this scenario as a successful chain build. This could allow an adversary to subvert the app's typical authentication logic.

CVE-2024-21319 - .NET Denial of Service Vulnerability

Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in the ASP.NET Core project templates. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to address this vulnerability.

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in ASP.NET Core project templates which utilize JWT-based authentication tokens. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated client to consume arbitrarily large amounts of server memory, potentially triggering an out-of-memory condition on the server and making the server no longer able to respond to legitimate requests.

Visual Studio Compatibility

You need Visual Studio 17.8 or later to use .NET 8.0 on Windows. While not officially supported, we’ve also enabled rudimentary support for .NET 8 in Visual Studio for Mac. Users have to enable a preview feature in Preferences to enable the IDE to discover and use the .NET 8 SDK for creating, loading, building, and debugging projects. The C# extension for Visual Studio Code supports .NET 8.0 and C# 11.

Feedback

Your feedback is important and appreciated. We've created an issue at dotnet/core #9052 for your questions and comments.

Packages updated in this release: