NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting freerdp2 package, versions <2.2.0+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.20.04.5


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.32% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-FREERDP2-5879294
  • published1 Sept 2023
  • disclosed31 Aug 2023

Introduced: 31 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-39351  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 freerdp2 to version 2.2.0+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.20.04.5 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. Affected versions of FreeRDP are subject to a Null Pointer Dereference leading a crash in the RemoteFX (rfx) handling. Inside the rfx_process_message_tileset function, the program allocates tiles using rfx_allocate_tiles for the number of numTiles. If the initialization process of tiles is not completed for various reasons, tiles will have a NULL pointer. Which may be accessed in further processing and would cause a program 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 vulnerability.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1