Synopsis

Important: freerdp security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Security Fix(es):

• freerdp: Integer truncation leading to heap-based buffer overflow in update_read_bitmap_update() function (CVE-2018-8786)
• freerdp: Integer overflow leading to heap-based buffer overflow in gdi_Bitmap_Decompress() function (CVE-2018-8787)
• freerdp: Out-of-bounds write in nsc_rle_decode() function (CVE-2018-8788)

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.

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 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 IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1671359 - CVE-2018-8786 freerdp: Integer truncation leading to heap-based buffer overflow in update_read_bitmap_update() function
• BZ - 1671361 - CVE-2018-8787 freerdp: Integer overflow leading to heap-based buffer overflow in gdi_Bitmap_Decompress() function
• BZ - 1671363 - CVE-2018-8788 freerdp: Out-of-bounds write in nsc_rle_decode() function

CVEs

• CVE-2018-8786
• CVE-2018-8787
• CVE-2018-8788

References