CVE-2017-2839

Publication date 27 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists within the handling of challenge packets in FreeRDP 2.0.0-beta1+android11. A specially crafted challenge packet can cause the program termination leading to a denial of service condition. An attacker can compromise the server or use man in the middle to trigger this vulnerability.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
freerdp	17.04 zesty	Fixed 1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-10ubuntu1.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.1.0~git20140921.1.440916e+dfsg1-5ubuntu1.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.0.2-2ubuntu1.1

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
freerdp	Upstream: 03ab683

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3380-1
FreeRDP vulnerabilities
7 August 2017