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Alma Linux: CVE-2023-40186: Moderate: freerdp security update (ALSA-2024-2208)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2023-40186: Moderate: freerdp security update (ALSA-2024-2208)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/31/2023
Created
05/08/2024
Added
05/08/2024
Modified
05/08/2024

Description

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. Affected versions are subject to an IntegerOverflow leading to Out-Of-Bound Write Vulnerability in the `gdi_CreateSurface` function. This issue affects FreeRDP based clients only. FreeRDP proxies are not affected as image decoding is not done by a proxy. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.11.0 and 3.0.0-beta3. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-freerdp
  • alma-upgrade-freerdp-devel
  • alma-upgrade-freerdp-libs
  • alma-upgrade-libwinpr
  • alma-upgrade-libwinpr-devel

References

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