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Status published
Medium
CVE-2022-39316
Out of bound read in FreeRDP
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-5w4j-mrrh-jjrm
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/e865c24efc40ebc52e75979c94cdd4ee2c1495b0
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UDOTAOJBCZKREZJPT6VZ25GESI5T6RBG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YGQN3OWQNHSMWKOF4D35PF5ASKNLC74B/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00010.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-16
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Vulnerable Versions:
< 2.9.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
November 16th, 2022
Last Modified:
November 3rd, 2025
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H