RHEL 9 : freerdp (RHSA-2024:2208)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194814

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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 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2208 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: Incorrect offset calculation leading to DOS (CVE-2023-39350)

* freerdp: Null Pointer Dereference leading DOS in RemoteFX (CVE-2023-39351)

* freerdp: invalid offset validation leading to Out Of Bound Write (CVE-2023-39352)

* freerdp: missing offset validation leading to Out-of-Bounds Read in gdi_multi_opaque_rect (CVE-2023-39356)

* freerdp: Integer overflow leading to out-of-bound write vulnerability in gdi_CreateSurface (CVE-2023-40186)

* freerdp: Out-of-bounds write in clear_decompress_bands_data (CVE-2023-40567)

* freerdp: Out-of-bounds write in the `progressive_decompress` function due to incorrect calculations (CVE-2023-40569)

* freerdp: buffer overflow in ncrush_decompress causes crash with crafted input (CVE-2023-40589)

* freerdp: missing offset validation leading to Out Of Bound Read (CVE-2023-39353)

* freerdp: Out-Of-Bounds Read in nsc_rle_decompress_data (CVE-2023-39354)

* freerdp: integer-Underflow leading to Out-Of-Bound Read in zgfx_decompress_segment (CVE-2023-40181)

* freerdp: Out-of-bounds read in general_LumaToYUV444 (CVE-2023-40188)

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 9.4 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 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-2024:2208.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194814

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2208.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/30/2024

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-40569

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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freerdp, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwinpr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwinpr-devel, 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: 4/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-39350, CVE-2023-39351, CVE-2023-39352, CVE-2023-39353, CVE-2023-39354, CVE-2023-39356, CVE-2023-40181, CVE-2023-40186, CVE-2023-40188, CVE-2023-40567, CVE-2023-40569, CVE-2023-40589

CWE: 120, 125, 191, 476, 787

RHSA: 2024:2208

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