CVE-2020-11045 Out-of-bounds Read in FreeRDP

What is CVE-2020-11045?

CVE-2020-11045 is a low-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 7 May 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In FreeRDP after 1.0 and before 2.0.0, there is an out-of-bound read in in update_read_bitmap_data that allows client memory to be read to an image buffer. The result displayed on screen as colour.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11045?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Freerdp Freerdp.

How do I fix CVE-2020-11045?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2020-11045 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11045 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11045, GHSA-3x39-248q-f4q6, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-11045.