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Ubuntu: USN-3380-1 (CVE-2017-2839): FreeRDP vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3380-1 (CVE-2017-2839): FreeRDP vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/01/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/07/2017
Modified
08/17/2018

Description

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists within the handling of challenge packets in FreeRDP 2.0.0-beta1+android11. A specially crafted challenge packet can cause the program termination leading to a denial of service condition. An attacker can compromise the server or use man in the middle to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfreerdp-client1-1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfreerdp1

References

  • USN-3380-1
  • 99942
  • DSA-3923
  • CVE-2017-2839

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