RHSA-2021:1849 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: freerdp security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · May 18, 2021

Updated · June 25, 2026

Topic

An update for freerdp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

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 following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: freerdp (2.2.0). (BZ#1881971)

Security Fix(es):

  • freerdp: out of bounds read in TrioParse (CVE-2020-4030)

  • freerdp: out of bound reads resulting in accessing memory location outside of static array PRIMARY_DRAWING_ORDER_FIELD_BYTES (CVE-2020-11095)

  • freerdp: out of bounds read in PRIMARY_DRAWING_ORDER_FIELD_BYTES (CVE-2020-11097)

  • freerdp: out of bounds read in license_read_new_or_upgrade_license_packet (CVE-2020-11099)

  • freerdp: integer overflow due to missing input sanitation in rdpegfx channel (CVE-2020-15103)

  • freerdp: out-of-bounds read in RLEDECOMPRESS (CVE-2020-4033)

  • freerdp: out-of-bound read in update_read_cache_bitmap_v3_order (CVE-2020-11096)

  • freerdp: out-of-bound read in glyph_cache_put (CVE-2020-11098)

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 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2021:1849 — Red Hat Security Advisory: freerdp security, bug fix, and enhancement update | PulseLinux