vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2023-40186: Moderate: freerdp security update (ALSA-2024-2208)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 31, 2023
Added
May 8, 2024
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. Affected versions are subject to an IntegerOverflow leading to Out-Of-Bound Write Vulnerability in the `gdi_CreateSurface` function. This issue affects FreeRDP based clients only. FreeRDP proxies are not affected as image decoding is not done by a proxy. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.11.0 and 3.0.0-beta3. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Solutions

alma-upgrade-freerdpalma-upgrade-freerdp-develalma-upgrade-freerdp-libsalma-upgrade-libwinpralma-upgrade-libwinpr-devel
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