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Mageia 2019-0012 Critical: FreeRDP Denial Of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2019-0013 addresses critical vulnerabilities in Samba, preventing possible data breaches and unauthorized access risks.
Eyal Itkin discovered FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain stream encodings

Summary

Eyal Itkin discovered FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain stream encodings. A malicious server could use this issue to cause FreeRDP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2018-8784, CVE-2018-8785).
Eyal Itkin discovered FreeRDP incorrectly handled bitmaps. A malicious server could use this issue to cause FreeRDP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2018-8786, CVE-2018-8787).
Eyal Itkin discovered FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain stream encodings. A malicious server could use this issue to cause FreeRDP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2018-8788).
Eyal Itkin discovered FreeRDP incorrectly handled NTLM authentication. A malicious server could use this issue to cause FreeRDP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2018-8789).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24074

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3845-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8784

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8785

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8786

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8787

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8788

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8789

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/freerdp-2.0.0-0.rc4.1.mga6

Severity
critical
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Critical

Publication date: 05 Jan 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0012.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-8784, CVE-2018-8785, CVE-2018-8786, CVE-2018-8787, CVE-2018-8788, CVE-2018-8789

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