CVE-2020-11042

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-11042
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-05-07 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-24 14:04:00 UTC
DescriptionIn FreeRDP greater than 1.1 and before 2.0.0, there is an out-of-bounds read in update_read_icon_info. It allows reading a attacker-defined amount of client memory (32bit unsigned -> 4GB) to an intermediate buffer. This can be used to crash the client or store information for later retrieval. This has been patched in 2.0.0.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Freerdp Freerdp All All All All
Application Freerdp Freerdp All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-4379-1: FreeRDP vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Fix #6010: Check length in read_icon_info · FreeRDP/FreeRDP@6b2bc41 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 3606-1] freerdp2 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
memory out of bounds read in update_read_icon_info · Issue #6010 · FreeRDP/FreeRDP · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2356-1] freerdp security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Memory out of bounds read in update_read_icon_info · Advisory · FreeRDP/FreeRDP · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
USN-4382-1: FreeRDP vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 377291 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for freerdp (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0161)
  • 6000137 Debian Security Update for freerdp2 (DLA 3606-1)
  • 670175 EulerOS Security Update for freerdp (EulerOS-SA-2021-1675)
  • 670291 EulerOS Security Update for freerdp (EulerOS-SA-2021-1785)
  • 670612 EulerOS Security Update for freerdp (EulerOS-SA-2021-2370)
  • 940155 AlmaLinux Security Update for freerdp and vinagre (ALSA-2020:4647)
  • 960228 Rocky Linux Security Update for freerdp and vinagre (RLSA-2020:4647)
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