# CVE-2022-39316: Out of bound read in FreeRDP

> A malicious server can cause a FreeRDP client to crash via an out-of-bounds read in the ZGFX decoder, requiring users to upgrade the library.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 16 Nov 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** CLEANSTART-2024-AK27923, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-39316, GHSA-5w4j-mrrh-jjrm, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-39316

## What is CVE-2022-39316?

CVE-2022-39316 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 16 Nov 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients. In affected versions there is an out of bound read in ZGFX decoder component of FreeRDP. A malicious server can trick a FreeRDP based client to read out of bound data and try to decode it likely resulting in a crash. This issue has been addressed in the 2.9.0 release. Users are advised to upgrade.

Weakness: CWE-125 (Out-of-bounds Read)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-39316?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Fedoraproject Fedora, Freerdp Freerdp.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-39316?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2022-39316 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-39316 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-39316 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-39316 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 16 Nov 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-39316 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Fedoraproject Fedora. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-39316/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-39316/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39316
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39316
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-39316

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-39316/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.