HuffmanTree_makeFromFrequencies in lodepng.c in LodePNG through 2019-09-28, as used in WinPR in FreeRDP and other products, has a memory leak because a supplied realloc pointer (i.e., the first argument to realloc) is also used for a realloc return value.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - HuffmanTree_makeFromFrequencies in lodepng.c in LodePNG through 2019-09-28, as used in WinPR in FreeRDP     and other products, has a memory leak because a supplied realloc pointer (i.e., the first argument to     realloc) is also used for a realloc return value. (CVE-2019-17178)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This update for freerdp fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2019-17177: Fixed multiple memory leaks in     libfreerdp/codec/region.c (bsc#1153163).

  - CVE-2019-17178: Fixed a memory leak in     HuffmanTree_makeFromFrequencies (bsc#1153164).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

This update for freerdp fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2019-17177: Fixed multiple memory leaks in     libfreerdp/codec/region.c (bsc#1153163).

  - CVE-2019-17178: Fixed a memory leak in     HuffmanTree_makeFromFrequencies (bsc#1153164).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for freerdp fixes the following issues :

CVE-2019-17177: Fixed multiple memory leaks in libfreerdp/codec/region.c (bsc#1153163).

CVE-2019-17178: Fixed a memory leak in HuffmanTree_makeFromFrequencies (bsc#1153164).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255482	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-17178	Nessus	Misc.	high
131544	openSUSE Security Update : freerdp (openSUSE-2019-2608)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
131543	openSUSE Security Update : freerdp (openSUSE-2019-2604)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
131390	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : freerdp (SUSE-SU-2019:3079-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
131389	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : freerdp (SUSE-SU-2019:3078-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
131388	SUSE SLED12 Security Update : freerdp (SUSE-SU-2019:3077-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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