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Mageia 8 MGASA-2022-0437 Critical: FreeRDP Audio/Video Exploit

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to FreeRDP packages tackle significant security flaws in Mageia concerning the management of audio and video data streams.
FreeRDP based clients on unix systems using `/parallel` command line switch might read uninitialized data and send it to the server the client is currently connected to

Summary

FreeRDP based clients on unix systems using `/parallel` command line switch might read uninitialized data and send it to the server the client is currently connected to. (CVE-2022-39282)
All FreeRDP based clients when using the `/video` command line switch might read uninitialized data, decode it as audio/video and display the result. (CVE-2022-39283)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31136

- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2022-November/012920.html

- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-c45q-wcpg-mxjq

- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-6cf9-3328-qrvh

- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/releases/tag/2.8.1

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39282

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39283

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical data handling Mageia FreeRDP uninitialized data audio video exploit

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/freerdp-2.2.0-1.3.mga8

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Publication date: 24 Nov 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0437.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-39282, CVE-2022-39283

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical data handling Mageia FreeRDP uninitialized data audio video exploit

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