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Unscored USN-3845-2 4 CVEs

freerdp vulnerabilities

Published May 28, 2019 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

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)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS freerdp 1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-15ubuntu1.18.04.1

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-8786
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-8787
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-8788
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-8789