Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting freerdp/freerdp package, versions [,2.8.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREERDPFREERDP-3043099
  • published13 Oct 2022
  • disclosed13 Oct 2022
  • creditBT5

Introduced: 13 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-39283  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freerdp/freerdp to version 2.8.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Resource when using the /video command line switch, due to reading uninitialized data, decoding it as audio/video and displaying the result.

Note FreeRDP based server implementations are not affected.

Workaround

Users who are unable to upgrade to the fixed version should not use the /video switch.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1