Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting freerdp2 package, versions <2.0.0~git20190204.1.2693389a+dfsg1-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.44% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-FREERDP2-1546709
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed4 Oct 2019

Introduced: 4 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17178  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 freerdp2 to version 2.0.0~git20190204.1.2693389a+dfsg1-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freerdp2 package and not the freerdp2 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

HuffmanTree_makeFromFrequencies in lodepng.c in LodePNG through 2019-09-28, as used in WinPR in FreeRDP and other products, has a memory leak because a supplied realloc pointer (i.e., the first argument to realloc) is also used for a realloc return value.

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