CVE-2019-17178 — Unchecked Return Value in Freerdp

CWE-252 — Unchecked Return ValueCWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeCWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime4 documents4 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.8%
top 25.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Debian Freerdp2FreerdpLodev Lodepng+1 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 4
Latest updateMay 24

Description

HuffmanTree_makeFromFrequencies in lodepng.c in LodePNG through 2019-09-28, as used in WinPR in FreeRDP and other products, has a memory leak because a supplied realloc pointer (i.e., the first argument to realloc) is also used for a realloc return value.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlodev/lodepng2019-09-28
▶debiandebian/freerdp2< freerdp2 2.0.0~git20190204.1.2693389a+dfsg1-2 (bookworm)
▶NVDfreerdp/freerdp1.0.2+1
▶NVDopensuse/leap15.0, 15.1+1

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-v77x-r3jc-52jh: HuffmanTree_makeFromFrequencies in lodepng↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2019-17178: HuffmanTree_makeFromFrequencies in lodepng↗2019-10-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2019-17178: freerdp2 - HuffmanTree_makeFromFrequencies in lodepng.c in LodePNG through 2019-09-28, as u...↗2019
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