CVE-2023-40589

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-40589
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-31 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-13 01:08:00 UTC
DescriptionFreeRDP 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-120

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 38 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 39 All All All
Application Freerdp Freerdp All All All All
Application Freerdp Freerdp 3.0.0 beta1 All All
Application Freerdp Freerdp 3.0.0 beta2 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: freerdp-2.11.1-1.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: freerdp-2.11.1-1.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
[codec,ncrush] fix index checks · FreeRDP/FreeRDP@16141a3 · GitHub MISC github.com
Global-Buffer-Overflow in ncrush_decompress · Advisory · FreeRDP/FreeRDP · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: freerdp-2.11.1-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3606-1] freerdp2 security update MISC lists.debian.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199801 Ubuntu Security Notification for FreeRDP Vulnerabilities (USN-6401-1)
  • 284533 Fedora Security Update for freerdp (FEDORA-2023-5e6796cb83)
  • 285270 Fedora Security Update for freerdp (FEDORA-2023-74108ca60d)
  • 356394 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for freerdp : ALAS2-2023-2269
  • 6000137 Debian Security Update for freerdp2 (DLA 3606-1)
  • 673560 EulerOS Security Update for freerdp (EulerOS-SA-2024-1264)
  • 710834 Gentoo Linux FreeRDP Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202401-16)
  • 755367 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for freerdp (SUSE-SU-2023:4611-1)
  • 755481 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for freerdp (SUSE-SU-2023:4893-1)
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