vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-6401-1 (CVE-2023-40589): FreeRDP vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Aug 31, 2023 | Oct 6, 2023 | Jan 28, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 31, 2023
Added
Oct 6, 2023
Modified
Jan 28, 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)
ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libfreerdp2-2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libwinpr2-2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libwinpr2-dev
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