Bug 2236650 (CVE-2023-40569) - CVE-2023-40569 freerdp: Out-of-bounds write in the `progressive_decompress` function due to incorrect calculations
Summary: CVE-2023-40569 freerdp: Out-of-bounds write in the `progressive_decompress` f...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-40569
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2236653 2236654 2236655
Blocks: 2236652
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-09-01 05:40 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2024-04-30 09:48 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: freerdp 2.11.0, freerdp 3.0.0-beta3
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A flaw was found in FreeRDP. Incorrect calculations in the `progressive_decompress` function may allow for a buffer overflow, resulting in a crash.
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:2208 0 None None None 2024-04-30 09:48:45 UTC

Description Marian Rehak 2023-09-01 05:40:41 UTC 
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. Affected versions are subject to an Out-Of-Bounds Write in the `progressive_decompress` function. This issue is likely down to incorrect calculations of the `nXSrc` and `nYSrc` variables. 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 vulnerability.

https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/blob/5be5553e0da72178a4b94cc1ffbdace9ceb153e5/libfreerdp/codec/progressive.c#L2598-L2616
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-hm8c-rcjg-c8qp
Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2023-09-01 05:43:11 UTC 
Created freerdp tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2236653]
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-30 09:48:44 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:2208 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2208
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