7.5 - RHSA-2019:2157

Problem Description:

An update for freerdp and vinagre is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

3. Description:

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. The xfreerdp client can connect to RDP servers such as Microsoft Windows machines, xrdp, and VirtualBox.

The vinagre packages provide the Vinagre remote desktop viewer for the GNOME desktop.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: freerdp (2.0.0). (BZ#1291254)

Security Fix(es):

* freerdp: out of bounds read in drdynvc_process_capability_request (CVE-2018-1000852)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1291254 - Rebase FreeRDP to newer version 1569552 - vinagre does not accept passwords longer than 20 characters 1661640 - CVE-2018-1000852 freerdp: out of bounds read in drdynvc_process_capability_request 1680229 - Rebuild vinagre against new freerdp