USN-8698-1: FreeRDP vulnerabilities
It was discovered that FreeRDP contained multiple security issues. An attacker could possibly use these issues to obtain sensitive information, cause FreeRDP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- FreeRDP contains multiple unspecified security issues enabling information disclosure, denial of service, and arbitrary code execution.
- Who is affected
- Users connecting via FreeRDP to remote systems.
- Urgency
- High urgency; remote code execution and information disclosure in RDP client affecting all users.
- Action
- Update FreeRDP to the patched version from USN-8698-1.
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Details
Original advisory: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8698-1
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