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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2024-ebcde12345 Critical: xserver Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent upgrade to freerdp version 2.11.5 in Fedora 38 tackles significant concerns and enhances overall performance. Explore the specifics!
Update to 2.11.5

Summary

The xfreerdp & wlfreerdp Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) clients from the FreeRDP

project.

xfreerdp & wlfreerdp can connect to RDP servers such as Microsoft Windows

machines, xrdp and VirtualBox.

Update Information:

Update to 2.11.5

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora heap overflow freerdp

Change Log

* Thu Feb 1 2024 Ondrej Holy - 2:2.11.5-1 - Update to 2.11.5.

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2259483 - CVE-2024-22211 freerdp: Integer Overflow leading to Heap Overflow in freerdp_bitmap_planar_context_reset https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259483

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-f294ddb7fb' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: freerdp
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 2.11.5
Release: 1.fc38
URL: https://www.freerdp.com/
Summary: Free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora heap overflow freerdp

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