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Vulnerability · Published Oct 12, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2022-39283FreeRDP may read and display out of bounds data

Medium 5.9

In plain English

A medium-severity out-of-bounds read 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 1.4% (higher than 72% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.4%top 27.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients. All FreeRDP based clients when using the `/video` command line switch might read uninitialized data, decode it as audio/video and display the result. FreeRDP based server implementations are not affected. This issue has been patched in version 2.8.1. If you cannot upgrade do not use the `/video` switch.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8freerdp2:2.2.0-10.el8ALSA-2023:2851
AlmaLinux:9freerdp2:2.4.1-5.el9ALSA-2023:2326
AlmaLinux:8freerdp-devel2:2.2.0-10.el8ALSA-2023:2851
AlmaLinux:9freerdp-devel2:2.4.1-5.el9ALSA-2023:2326
AlmaLinux:8freerdp-libs2:2.2.0-10.el8ALSA-2023:2851
AlmaLinux:9freerdp-libs2:2.4.1-5.el9ALSA-2023:2326
AlmaLinux:8libwinpr2:2.2.0-10.el8ALSA-2023:2851
AlmaLinux:9libwinpr2:2.4.1-5.el9ALSA-2023:2326
AlmaLinux:8libwinpr-devel2:2.2.0-10.el8ALSA-2023:2851
AlmaLinux:9libwinpr-devel2:2.4.1-5.el9ALSA-2023:2326
Debian:12freerdp22.8.1+dfsg1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-39283
Rocky Linux:8freerdp2:2.2.0-10.el8RLSA-2023:2851
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSfreerdp22.6.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.3USN-5734-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSfreerdp22.6.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.3UBUNTU-CVE-2022-39283

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
FreeRDP FreeRDP <= 2.8.0

Weakness: CWE-125 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References