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Vulnerability · Published Aug 31, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2023-40589FreeRDP Global-Buffer-Overflow in ncrush_decompress

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity buffer overflow in FreeRDP from FreeRDP. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (higher than 71% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 29.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:9freerdp2:2.11.2-1.el9ALSA-2024:2208
AlmaLinux:9freerdp-devel2:2.11.2-1.el9ALSA-2024:2208
AlmaLinux:9freerdp-libs2:2.11.2-1.el9ALSA-2024:2208
AlmaLinux:9libwinpr2:2.11.2-1.el9ALSA-2024:2208
AlmaLinux:9libwinpr-devel2:2.11.2-1.el9ALSA-2024:2208
Debian:12freerdp22.11.7+dfsg1-6~deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-40589
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSfreerdp22.6.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4USN-6401-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSfreerdp22.6.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4UBUNTU-CVE-2023-40589

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
FreeRDP FreeRDP < 2.11.0>= 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.0.0-beta3

Weakness: CWE-120 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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