Description
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients. In affected versions there is an out of bound read in ZGFX decoder component of FreeRDP. A malicious server can trick a FreeRDP based client to read out of bound data and try to decode it likely resulting in a crash. This issue has been addressed in the 2.9.0 release. Users are advised to upgrade.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/e865c24efc40ebc52e75979c94cdd4ee2c1495b0
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-5w4j-mrrh-jjrm
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UDOTAOJBCZKREZJPT6VZ25GESI5T6RBG/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YGQN3OWQNHSMWKOF4D35PF5ASKNLC74B/
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00010.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-16
Scores
CVSS v3
4.8
EPSS
0.0025
EPSS Percentile
47.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (3)
fedoraproject/fedora
36
fedoraproject/fedora
37
freerdp/freerdp
< 2.9.0
Published
Nov 16, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026