Memory Leak Affecting freerdp/freerdp package, versions [,2.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.33% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREERDPFREERDP-2319421
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed4 Oct 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17177  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freerdp/freerdp to version 2.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Leak libfreerdp/codec/region.c in FreeRDP through 1.1.x and 2.x through 2.0.0-rc4 has memory leaks because a supplied realloc pointer (i.e., the first argument to realloc) is also used for a realloc return value.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1