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CVE-2018-8787

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-11-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-680

Description

FreeRDP prior to version 2.0.0-rc4 contains an Integer Overflow that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function gdi_Bitmap_Decompress() and results in a memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• FreeRDP: through 1.2.0; 2.0.0-rc1, 2.0.0-rc2, 2.0.0-rc3
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106938
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0697
• https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/09b9d4f1994a674c4ec85b4947aa656eda1aed8a
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00015.html
• https://research.checkpoint.com/reverse-rdp-attack-code-execution-on-rdp-clients/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3845-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3845-2/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106938
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0697
• https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/09b9d4f1994a674c4ec85b4947aa656eda1aed8a
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00015.html
• https://research.checkpoint.com/reverse-rdp-attack-code-execution-on-rdp-clients/

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