NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting freerdp-devel package, versions <2:2.1.1-1.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-FREERDPDEVEL-3865918
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed22 May 2020

Introduced: 22 May 2020

CVE-2020-13397  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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.

An issue was discovered in FreeRDP before 2.1.1. An out-of-bounds (OOB) read vulnerability has been detected in security_fips_decrypt in libfreerdp/core/security.c due to an uninitialized value.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1