Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 12, 2022· Updated Nov 3, 2025
FreeRDP may read and display out of bounds data
CVE-2022-39283
Description
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients. All FreeRDP based clients when using the /video command line switch might read uninitialized data, decode it as audio/video and display the result. FreeRDP based server implementations are not affected. This issue has been patched in version 2.8.1. If you cannot upgrade do not use the /video switch.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
7- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HEWWYMGWIMD4RDCOGHWMZXUMBGZHC5NW/mitrevendor-advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RLZCF7YHNC5BECDPEJNAZUYGNNM7NFME/mitrevendor-advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UDOTAOJBCZKREZJPT6VZ25GESI5T6RBG/mitrevendor-advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-24mitrevendor-advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00010.htmlmitremailing-list
- github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/releases/tag/2.8.1mitre
- github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-6cf9-3328-qrvhmitre
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