freerdp2 vulnerabilities

1 June 2020

freerdp2 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 19.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in FreeRDP.

Software Description

• freerdp2 - RDP client for Windows Terminal Services

Details

It was discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause FreeRDP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly exeucte arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

libfreerdp-client2-2 - 2.1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

libfreerdp-server2-2 - 2.1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

libfreerdp2-2 - 2.1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 19.10

libfreerdp-client2-2 - 2.1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1

libfreerdp-server2-2 - 2.1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1

libfreerdp2-2 - 2.1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

libfreerdp-client2-2 - 2.1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

libfreerdp-server2-2 - 2.1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

libfreerdp2-2 - 2.1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2018-1000852
• CVE-2019-17177
• CVE-2020-11042
• CVE-2020-11044
• CVE-2020-11045
• CVE-2020-11046
• CVE-2020-11047
• CVE-2020-11048
• CVE-2020-11049
• CVE-2020-11058
• CVE-2020-11521
• CVE-2020-11522
• CVE-2020-11523
• CVE-2020-11524
• CVE-2020-11525
• CVE-2020-11526
• CVE-2020-13396
• CVE-2020-13397
• CVE-2020-13398