CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-40589

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-08-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-08-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-120

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.

Affected configurations

• freerdp freerdp (< 2.11.0) • freerdp freerdp 3.0.0 • fedoraproject fedora 37 • fedoraproject fedora 38 • fedoraproject fedora 39 • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness

References