The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6749-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain context resets. If a user were tricked into     connecting to a malicious server, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause FreeRDP to crash,     resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-22211)

    Evgeny Legerov discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user were     tricked into connecting to a malicious server, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause FreeRDP to     crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-32039,     CVE-2024-32040)

    Evgeny Legerov discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user were     tricked into connecting to a malicious server, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause     FreeRDP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-32041, CVE-2024-32458, CVE-2024-32460)

    Evgeny Legerov discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause FreeRDP clients and servers to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2024-32459)

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 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : FreeRDP vulnerabilities (USN-6749-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 193871

Version 1.2

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Version 1.2 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.1 Apr 26, 2024, 3:15 PM IAVM reference STIG Severity (set to "I") Plugin Feed: 202404261515
Version 1.0 Apr 25, 2024, 4:12 PM New Plugin Feed: 202404251612