Low: freerdp and vinagre security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-1000852   CVE-2018-1000852   CVE-2018-1000852  

Synopsis

Low: freerdp and vinagre security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

An update for freerdp and vinagre is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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.

The vinagre packages provide the Vinagre remote desktop viewer for the GNOME desktop.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: freerdp (2.0.0). (BZ#1291254)

Security Fix(es):

  • freerdp: out of bounds read in drdynvc_process_capability_request (CVE-2018-1000852)

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 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1291254 - Rebase FreeRDP to newer version
  • BZ - 1569552 - vinagre does not accept passwords longer than 20 characters
  • BZ - 1661640 - CVE-2018-1000852 freerdp: out of bounds read in drdynvc_process_capability_request
  • BZ - 1680229 - Rebuild vinagre against new freerdp

CVEs

References