CVE-2023-40589

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    CVE-2023-40589

    Published: 31 Aug 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00008.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00016.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/A6LLDAPEXRDJOM3PREDDD267SSNT77DP/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IHMTGKCZXJPQOR5ZD2I4GPDNP2DKRXMF/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OH2ATH2BKDNKCJAU4WPPXK4SHLE3UJUV/, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/40xxx/CVE-2023-40589.json, https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-gc34-mw6m-g42x, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40589, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-16, https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/16141a30f983dd6f7a6e5b0356084171942c9416

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1384b3c33b9bd7599633cc54bf20cf20ec6be83c

    Affected versions

    3.0.0-beta1
    3.0.0-beta2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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