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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-41160: Important: freerdp security update (ALSA-2021-4622)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-41160: Important: freerdp security update (ALSA-2021-4622)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/21/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/13/2022

Description

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. In affected versions a malicious server might trigger out of bound writes in a connected client. Connections using GDI or SurfaceCommands to send graphics updates to the client might send `0` width/height or out of bound rectangles to trigger out of bound writes. With `0` width or heigth the memory allocation will be `0` but the missing bounds checks allow writing to the pointer at this (not allocated) region. This issue has been patched in FreeRDP 2.4.1.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-freerdp
  • alma-upgrade-freerdp-devel
  • alma-upgrade-freerdp-libs
  • alma-upgrade-libwinpr
  • alma-upgrade-libwinpr-devel

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