The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2157 advisory.

    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 vinagre packages provide the Vinagre remote desktop viewer for the GNOME desktop.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: freerdp (2.0.0). (BZ#1291254)

    Security Fix(es):

    * freerdp: out of bounds read in drdynvc_process_capability_request (CVE-2018-1000852)

    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.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : freerdp and vinagre (RHSA-2019:2157)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127686

Version 1.8