CVE-2020-11018

Publication date 29 May 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

In FreeRDP less than or equal to 2.0.0, a possible resource exhaustion vulnerability can be performed. Malicious clients could trigger out of bound reads causing memory allocation with random size. This has been fixed in 2.1.0.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
freerdp	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	19.10 eoan	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
freerdp2	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
	19.10 eoan	Fixed 2.1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

same commit as CVE-2020-11017

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
freerdp2	Upstream: 8e1a1b4

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H