CVE-2023-40589

Name

CVE-2023-40589

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.

NVD Severity

medium

Other trackers

CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia

Mailing lists

oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq

Exploits

Exploit DB, Metasploit

Forges

GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

Type	URI
MISC	https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-gc34-mw6m-g42x
MISC	https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/16141a30f983dd6f7a6e5b0356084171942c9416

CPE URI	Source package	Min version	Max version
`cpe:2.3:a:freerdp:freerdp:3.0.0:beta1::::::`	freerdp	== None	== 3.0.0
`cpe:2.3:a:freerdp:freerdp::::::::`	freerdp	>= None	< 2.11.0

References

Match rules

Vulnerable and fixed packages