critical
9.8
CWE
119 681 787 680
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2018-8786: Buffer Overflow

First published: Thu Nov 29 2018(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@checkpoint.com cve@checkpoint.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
FreeRDP FreeRDP<=1.2.0
FreeRDP FreeRDP=2.0.0-rc1
FreeRDP FreeRDP=2.0.0-rc2
FreeRDP FreeRDP=2.0.0-rc3
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=14.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=16.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=18.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=18.10
Debian Debian Linux=8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora=28
Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop=7.0
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server=7.0
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus=7.6
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus=7.6
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Tus=7.6
Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation=7.0
redhat/freerdp<2.0.0
2.0.0
debian/freerdp2
2.3.0+dfsg1-2+deb11u1
2.10.0+dfsg1-1
2.11.7+dfsg1-4

Remedy

https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/445a5a42c500ceb80f8fa7f2c11f3682538033f3

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