Buffer Overflow Affecting freerdp-proxy package, versions <2.4.0-150400.3.23.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-FREERDPPROXY-6131166
  • published19 Dec 2023
  • disclosed18 Dec 2023

Introduced: 18 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-40589  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 freerdp-proxy to version 2.4.0-150400.3.23.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freerdp-proxy package and not the freerdp-proxy package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 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