Out-of-bounds Read Affecting freerdp/freerdp package, versions [2.0.0,2.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREERDPFREERDP-2319435
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed29 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 May 2020

CVE-2020-11018  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freerdp/freerdp to version 2.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. In FreeRDP less than or equal to 2.0.0, a possible resource exhaustion vulnerability can be performed. Malicious clients could trigger out of bound reads causing memory allocation with random size. This has been fixed in 2.1.0.

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