CVE-2018-8785

Publication date 29 November 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

FreeRDP prior to version 2.0.0-rc4 contains a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function zgfx_decompress() that results in a memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
freerdp 19.04 disco Not in release
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
freerdp2 19.04 disco
Fixed 2.0.0~git20181120.1.e21b72c95+dfsg1-1
18.10 cosmic
Fixed 2.0.0~git20180411.1.7a7b1802+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.0.0~git20170725.1.1648deb+dfsg1-7ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3845-1
    • FreeRDP vulnerabilities
    • 12 December 2018

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