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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-8785): FreeRDP vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-8785): FreeRDP vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/29/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/10/2019
Modified
01/20/2021

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfreerdp-client1-1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfreerdp-client2-2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfreerdp1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfreerdp2-2

References

  • USN-3845-1
  • USN-3845-2
  • CVE-2018-8785

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