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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-8788

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CVE-2018-8788

freerdp: Out-of-bounds write in nsc_rle_decode() function

Published Modified CWE 787
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Amazon (high), Oracle (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

FreeRDP prior to version 2.0.0-rc4 contains an Out-Of-Bounds Write of up to 4 bytes in function nsc_rle_decode() that results in a memory corruption and possibly even a remote code execution.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.11freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.12freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.13freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.14freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.15freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.16freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.17freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.18freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.19freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.20freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.21freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
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SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.11freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.12freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.13freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.14freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.15freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.16freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.17freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.18freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.19freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.20freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.21freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.22freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.22freerdp22.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.23freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.23freerdp22.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.24freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.24freerdp22.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine 3.9freerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine edgefreerdp2.0.0_rc4-r0
alpine edgefreerdp22.0.0_rc4-r0
amazon linux 2freerdp1.0.2-15.amzn2.0.1
amazon linux 2freerdp-debuginfo1.0.2-15.amzn2.0.1
amazon linux 2freerdp-devel1.0.2-15.amzn2.0.1
amazon linux 2freerdp-libs1.0.2-15.amzn2.0.1
amazon linux 2freerdp-plugins1.0.2-15.amzn2.0.1
debian 11freerdp22.0.0~git20181120.1.e21b72c95+dfsg1-1
debian 12freerdp22.0.0~git20181120.1.e21b72c95+dfsg1-1
debian 8freerdp1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-13~deb8u3
debian 9freerdp1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-13+deb9u3
echofreerdp22.0.0~git20181120.1.e21b72c95+dfsg1-1
Oracle Linux 7freerdp1.0.2-15.el7_6.1
Oracle Linux 7freerdp-devel1.0.2-15.el7_6.1
Oracle Linux 7freerdp-libs1.0.2-15.el7_6.1
Oracle Linux 7freerdp-plugins1.0.2-15.el7_6.1
Red Hatfreerdpno fix listed
Red Hatfreerdp-develno fix listed
Red Hatfreerdp-libsno fix listed
Red Hatfreerdp-pluginsno fix listed
ubuntu 16.04freerdp1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-5ubuntu1.3
ubuntu 16.04-ESMfreerdp1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-5ubuntu1.3
ubuntu 18.04freerdp1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-15ubuntu1.18.04.1
ubuntu 18.04freerdp22.0.0~git20170725.1.1648deb+dfsg1-7ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMfreerdp1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-15ubuntu1.18.04.1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMfreerdp22.0.0~git20170725.1.1648deb+dfsg1-7ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 18.10freerdp1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-15ubuntu1.18.10.1
ubuntu 18.10freerdp22.0.0~git20180411.1.7a7b1802+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 19.04freerdp22.0.0~git20181120.1.e21b72c95+dfsg1-1

References

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