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


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-FREERDPDEVEL-1455282
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed30 Mar 2020

Introduced: 30 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-11045  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

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

NVD Description

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

In FreeRDP after 1.0 and before 2.0.0, there is an out-of-bound read in in update_read_bitmap_data that allows client memory to be read to an image buffer. The result displayed on screen as colour.

CVSS Scores

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