CVE-2017-2837

Publication date 27 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.9 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists within the handling of security data 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

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

Patch details

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Package Patch details
freerdp

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.9 · Medium

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

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