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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-8787: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-8787: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/29/2018
Created
04/24/2019
Added
04/22/2019
Modified
10/10/2024

Description

FreeRDP prior to version 2.0.0-rc4 contains an Integer Overflow that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function gdi_Bitmap_Decompress() and results in a memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-freerdp

References

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