MGASA-2022-0474 - Updated freerdp packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Dec 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0474.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8
CVE: CVE-2022-41877

Affected versions of FreeRDP are missing input length validation in
'drive' channel. A malicious server can trick a FreeRDP based client to
read out of bound data and send it back to the server. (CVE-2022-41877)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31290
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YGQN3OWQNHSMWKOF4D35PF5ASKNLC74B/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-41877

SRPMS:
- 8/core/freerdp-2.2.0-1.5.mga8

Mageia 2022-0474: freerdp security update

Affected versions of FreeRDP are missing input length validation in 'drive' channel

Summary

Affected versions of FreeRDP are missing input length validation in 'drive' channel. A malicious server can trick a FreeRDP based client to read out of bound data and send it back to the server. (CVE-2022-41877)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31290

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YGQN3OWQNHSMWKOF4D35PF5ASKNLC74B/

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-41877

Resolution

MGASA-2022-0474 - Updated freerdp packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 8/core/freerdp-2.2.0-1.5.mga8

Severity
Publication date: 17 Dec 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0474.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-41877

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