CVE-2022-39283 FreeRDP may read and display out of bounds data

What is CVE-2022-39283?

CVE-2022-39283 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 12 Oct 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-908, CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-39283?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Freerdp Freerdp.

How do I fix CVE-2022-39283?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2022-39283 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-39283 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-39283, GHSA-6cf9-3328-qrvh, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-39283.