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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-8786) ELSA-2019-0697: freerdp security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-8786) ELSA-2019-0697: freerdp security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/29/2018
Created
07/23/2020
Added
07/21/2020
Modified
11/23/2022

Description

FreeRDP prior to version 2.0.0-rc4 contains an Integer Truncation that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function update_read_bitmap_update() and results in a memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freerdp
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freerdp-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freerdp-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freerdp-plugins

References

  • ELSA-2019-0697
  • USN-3845-1
  • USN-3845-2
  • CVE-2018-8786

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