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SUSE: CVE-2023-40589: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2023-40589: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/31/2023
Created
12/01/2023
Added
11/30/2023
Modified
12/19/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-freerdp
  • suse-upgrade-freerdp-devel
  • suse-upgrade-freerdp-proxy
  • suse-upgrade-freerdp-server
  • suse-upgrade-freerdp-wayland
  • suse-upgrade-libfreerdp2
  • suse-upgrade-libuwac0-0
  • suse-upgrade-libwinpr2
  • suse-upgrade-uwac0-0-devel
  • suse-upgrade-winpr2-devel

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