Security Advisory

CVE-2023-40589

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-08-31 18:31:07
Last updated 2025-11-03 20:35:56
Assigner GitHub_M
CVSS score 4.3
State PUBLISHED

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.