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CVE-2023-40589
high
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.
References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-16
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00008.html
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-gc34-mw6m-g42x
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/16141a30f983dd6f7a6e5b0356084171942c9416