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Red Hat: CVE-2023-40589: freerdp: buffer overflow in ncrush_decompress causes crash with crafted input (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2023-40589: freerdp: buffer overflow in ncrush_decompress causes crash with crafted input (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/31/2023
Created
05/01/2024
Added
05/01/2024
Modified
09/03/2024

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-freerdp
  • redhat-upgrade-freerdp-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-freerdp-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-freerdp-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-freerdp-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-freerdp-libs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libwinpr
  • redhat-upgrade-libwinpr-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libwinpr-devel

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