vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2023-40186: freerdp: Integer overflow leading to out-of-bound write vulnerability in gdi_CreateSurface (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Aug 31, 2023 | May 1, 2024 | Sep 1, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 31, 2023
Added
May 1, 2024
Modified
Sep 1, 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
no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-freerdpredhat-upgrade-freerdp-debuginforedhat-upgrade-freerdp-debugsourceredhat-upgrade-freerdp-develredhat-upgrade-freerdp-libsredhat-upgrade-freerdp-libs-debuginforedhat-upgrade-libwinprredhat-upgrade-libwinpr-debuginforedhat-upgrade-libwinpr-devel
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