CVE-2023-40589 — Classic Buffer Overflow in Freerdp

CWE-120 — Classic Buffer Overflow7 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
CNA4.3
EPSS
0.2%
top 55.29%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
FreerdpDebian LinuxFedoraproject Fedora
Timeline
PublishedAug 31
Latest updateOct 4

Description

FreeRDP 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.

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 Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5freerdp/freerdp< 2.11.0+1
▶NVDfreerdp/freerdp< 2.11.0+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, Fedora 37, 38, 39

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
freerdp2 vulnerabilities↗2023-10-04
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CVEList
FreeRDP Global-Buffer-Overflow in ncrush_decompress↗2023-08-31
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OSV
CVE-2023-40589: FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license↗2023-08-31
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
FreeRDP vulnerabilities↗2023-10-04
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Red Hat
freerdp: buffer overflow in ncrush_decompress causes crash with crafted input↗2023-08-31
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Debian
CVE-2023-40589: freerdp2 - FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released ...↗2023
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