CVE-2023-40569

Published: 1 September 2023

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. Affected versions are subject to an Out-Of-Bounds Write in the `progressive_decompress` function. This issue is likely down to incorrect calculations of the `nXSrc` and `nYSrc` variables. 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 vulnerability.

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-40569
• https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-hm8c-rcjg-c8qp
• https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/blob/5be5553e0da72178a4b94cc1ffbdace9ceb153e5/libfreerdp/codec/progressive.c#L2598-L2616
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian