CentOS 7 : freerdp (CESA-2019:0697)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 124032

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for freerdp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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.

Security Fix(es) :

* freerdp: Integer truncation leading to heap-based buffer overflow in update_read_bitmap_update() function (CVE-2018-8786)

* freerdp: Integer overflow leading to heap-based buffer overflow in gdi_Bitmap_Decompress() function (CVE-2018-8787)

* freerdp: Out-of-bounds write in nsc_rle_decode() function (CVE-2018-8788)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

Update the affected freerdp packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 124032

File Name: centos_RHSA-2019-0697.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 4/15/2019

Updated: 6/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8788

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freerdp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freerdp-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freerdp-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freerdp-plugins

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8786, CVE-2018-8787, CVE-2018-8788

RHSA: 2019:0697

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