USN-3845-2: FreeRDP vulnerabilities

freerdp vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in FreeRDP.

Software Description

• freerdp - RDP client for Windows Terminal Services

Details

USN-3845-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in FreeRDP. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10.

Original advisory details:

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. This issue only applies to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10. (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. This issue only applies to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10. (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. This issue only applies to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10. (CVE-2018-8789)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.10

libfreerdp-client1.1 - 1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-15ubuntu1.18.10.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

libfreerdp-client1.1 - 1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-15ubuntu1.18.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• USN-3845-1
• CVE-2018-8786
• CVE-2018-8787
• CVE-2018-8788
• CVE-2018-8789

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://bit.ly/2XdBePl