QID 239295

Date Published: 2021-05-20

QID 239295: Red Hat Update for freerdp (RHSA-2021:1849)

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. The xfreerdp client can connect to RDP servers such as Microsoft Windows machines, xrdp, and VirtualBox.The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: freerdp (2.2.0). (BZ#1881971)

Security Fix(es): freerdp: out of bounds read in TrioParse (CVE-2020-4030) freerdp: out of bound reads resulting in accessing memory location outside of static array PRIMARY_DRAWING_ORDER_FIELD_BYTES (CVE-2020-11095) freerdp: out of bounds read in PRIMARY_DRAWING_ORDER_FIELD_BYTES (CVE-2020-11097) freerdp: out of bounds read in license_read_new_or_upgrade_license_packet (CVE-2020-11099) freerdp: integer overflow due to missing input sanitation in rdpegfx channel (CVE-2020-15103) freerdp: out-of-bounds read in RLEDECOMPRESS (CVE-2020-4033) freerdp: out-of-bound read in update_read_cache_bitmap_v3_order (CVE-2020-11096) freerdp: out-of-bound read in glyph_cache_put (CVE-2020-11098)

Affected Products:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

On successful exploitation, it could allow an attacker to execute code.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.4 severity.
  • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest packages which contain a patch. Refer to Applying Package Updates to RHEL system for details.

    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2021:1849 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:1849 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1849?language=en