Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) protocol can allow bad actors to take control of computers connecting to a malicious server using remote code execution and memory corruption. Check Point Research was able to find 16 major vulnerabilities out of a total of 25 security issues discovered in the open source FreeRDP RDP client and its fork rdesktop. Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection was unfazed when facing vulnerability PoCs designed for the open-source client, the only result being that the client “closed itself cleanly
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