Out-of-bounds Read Affecting freerdp package, versions <2:2.1.1-1.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-FREERDP-2572429
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed29 May 2020

Introduced: 29 May 2020

CVE-2020-11018  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 freerdp to version 2:2.1.1-1.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2020-4647.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freerdp package and not the freerdp package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In FreeRDP less than or equal to 2.0.0, a possible resource exhaustion vulnerability can be performed. Malicious clients could trigger out of bound reads causing memory allocation with random size. This has been fixed in 2.1.0.

CVSS Scores

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