CVE-2024-22211

FreeRDP integer Overflow leading to Heap Overflow

State
Published
Severity
3.7 Low
Published
Jan 19, 2024
Updated
Nov 3, 2025
Reserved
Jan 8, 2024

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Description

FreeRDP is a set of free and open source remote desktop protocol library and clients. In affected versions an integer overflow in `freerdp_bitmap_planar_context_reset` leads to heap-buffer overflow. This affects FreeRDP based clients. FreeRDP based server implementations and proxy are not affected. A malicious server could prepare a `RDPGFX_RESET_GRAPHICS_PDU` to allocate too small buffers, possibly triggering later out of bound read/write. Data extraction over network is not possible, the buffers are used to display an image. This issue has been addressed in version 2.11.5 and 3.2.0. Users are advised to upgrade. there are no know workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.7 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound
  • CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

ProductVersions
FreeRDPFreeRDP
  • < 2.11.5Affected
  • >= 3.0.0, < 3.2.0Affected

References

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