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Ubuntu: USN-6401-1 (CVE-2023-40589): FreeRDP vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-6401-1 (CVE-2023-40589): FreeRDP vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/31/2023
Created
10/06/2023
Added
10/06/2023
Modified
01/28/2025

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-libfreerdp2-2
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libwinpr2-2
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libwinpr2-dev

References

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