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USN-6749-1: FreeRDP vulnerabilities

24 April 2024

Several security issues were fixed in FreeRDP.

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Releases

Packages

  • freerdp2 - RDP client for Windows Terminal Services

Details

It was discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain context resets.
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-2024-22211)

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)

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-2024-32041, CVE-2024-32458,
CVE-2024-32460)

Evgeny Legerov discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain memory
operations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
FreeRDP clients and servers to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2024-32459)

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 23.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.