CVE-2023-40589CWE-120

FreeRDP Global-Buffer-Overflow in ncrush_decompress

Medium · published August 31, 2023

CVSS v3.1
4.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
70.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01298 · 70.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Published
2023-08-31T18:31Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 31 AUG 18:31Z
    FreeRDP Global-Buffer-Overflow in ncrush_decompress
    cvelistv5