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Red Hat: CVE-2023-40589: freerdp: buffer overflow in ncrush_decompress causes crash with crafted input (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 08/31/2023 | 05/01/2024 | 03/17/2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/31/2023
Added
05/01/2024
Modified
03/17/2025
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)
redhat-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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