CVE-2023-40589
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40589
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-40589.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-40589
- Aliases
-
- GHSA-gc34-mw6m-g42x
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2023-08-31T18:31:07Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-15T02:42:51.595491Z
- Severity
-
- 4.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- FreeRDP Global-Buffer-Overflow in ncrush_decompress
- Details
-
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://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-gc34-mw6m-g42x
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-16
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/16141a30f983dd6f7a6e5b0356084171942c9416
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00008.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A6LLDAPEXRDJOM3PREDDD267SSNT77DP/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IHMTGKCZXJPQOR5ZD2I4GPDNP2DKRXMF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OH2ATH2BKDNKCJAU4WPPXK4SHLE3UJUV/
Affected packages
Git / github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP
- Events
Affected versions
1.*
1.0-beta1
1.0-beta2
1.0-beta3
1.0-beta4
1.0-beta5
1.0.0
1.0.1
1.1.0-beta+2013071101
1.1.0-beta1
1.1.0-beta1+android2
1.1.0-beta1+android3
1.1.0-beta1+android4
1.1.0-beta1+android5
1.1.0-beta1+ios1
1.1.0-beta1+ios2
1.1.0-beta1+ios3
1.1.0-beta1+ios4
1.2.0-beta1+android7
1.2.0-beta1+android9
2.*
2.0.0
2.0.0-beta1+android10
2.0.0-beta1+android11
2.0.0-rc0
2.0.0-rc1
2.0.0-rc2
2.0.0-rc3
2.0.0-rc4
2.1.0
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.10.0
2.2.0
2.3.0
2.3.1
2.3.2
2.4.1
2.5.0
2.6.0
2.6.1
2.7.0
2.8.0
2.8.1
2.9.0
3.*
3.0.0-beta1
3.0.0-beta2