The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5734-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain data lenghts. A malicious server could use this     issue to cause FreeRDP clients to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive     information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-39282, CVE-2022-39283)

    It was discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain data lenghts. A malicious server could use this     issue to cause FreeRDP clients to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive     information. (CVE-2022-39316, CVE-2022-39317, CVE-2022-39318, CVE-2022-39319, CVE-2022-39320)

    It was discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain path checks. A malicious server could use this     issue to cause FreeRDP clients to read files outside of the shared directory. (CVE-2022-39347)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : FreeRDP vulnerabilities (USN-5734-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 168146

Version 1.5