CVE-2017-2837: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Freerdp Freerdp: version 2.0.0 only

Published 2018-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.