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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : FreeRDP vulnerabilities (USN-7341-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 232627

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7341-1 advisory.

 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, CVE-2024-32041)

 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-2024-32458, CVE-2024-32460)

 It was 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-2024-32661)

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7341-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 232627

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7341-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2025

Updated: 3/11/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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-2024-32658

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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freerdp2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freerdp2-shadow-x11, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freerdp2-wayland, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freerdp2-x11, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libuwac0-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwinpr2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:winpr-utils, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfreerdp-client2-2t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfreerdp-server2-2t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfreerdp-shadow-subsystem2-2t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfreerdp-shadow2-2t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfreerdp2-2t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libuwac0-0t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwinpr-tools2-2t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwinpr2-2t64

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-32039, CVE-2024-32040, CVE-2024-32041, CVE-2024-32460, CVE-2024-32658, CVE-2024-32661

USN: 7341-1