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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-40589: Security patch for freerdp (ALAS-2023-2269)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-40589: Security patch for freerdp (ALAS-2023-2269)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/31/2023
Created
10/06/2023
Added
10/06/2023
Modified
10/06/2023

Description

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. In affected versions there is a Global-Buffer-Overflow in the ncrush_decompress function. Feeding crafted input into this function can trigger the overflow which has only been shown to cause a crash. 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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-freerdp
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-freerdp-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-freerdp-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-freerdp-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libwinpr
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libwinpr-devel

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