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RHEL 8 : freerdp (RHSA-2020:2336)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 136975
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for freerdp.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2336 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.
Security Fix(es):
* freerdp: Out-of-bounds write in planar.c (CVE-2020-11521)
* freerdp: Integer overflow in region.c (CVE-2020-11523)
* freerdp: Out-of-bounds write in interleaved.c (CVE-2020-11524)
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.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the RHEL freerdp package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:2336.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?d13b281e
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2336
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1836214
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 136975
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2336.nasl
Version: 1.12
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 5/30/2020
Updated: 11/7/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Important
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6
Temporal Score: 4.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11524
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.6
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freerdp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwinpr-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwinpr, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freerdp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freerdp-libs
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2020