Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package freerdp (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published11 Feb 2026
- disclosed29 Nov 2018
Introduced: 29 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-8786 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freerdp package and not the freerdp package as distributed by Debian.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-8786
- https://research.checkpoint.com/reverse-rdp-attack-code-execution-on-rdp-clients/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8786
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00015.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YVJKO2DR5EY4C4QZOP7SNNBEW2JW6FHX/
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/445a5a42c500ceb80f8fa7f2c11f3682538033f3
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0697
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106938
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-8786
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3845-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3845-2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YVJKO2DR5EY4C4QZOP7SNNBEW2JW6FHX/