Buffer Overflow Affecting freerdp-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.08% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS6-FREERDPDEVEL-5884389
  • published 6 Sep 2023
  • disclosed 31 Aug 2023

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:6 freerdp-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freerdp-devel package and not the freerdp-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

7.5 high
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SUSE

4.3 medium