Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-41877 - Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
LOW Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
LOW Summary
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients. Affected versions of FreeRDP are missing input length validation in `drive` channel. A malicious server can trick a FreeRDP based client to read out of bound data and send it back to the server. This issue has been addressed in version 2.9.0 and all users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should not use the drive redirection channel - command line options `/drive`, `+drives` or `+home-drive`.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-pmv3-wpw4-pw5h
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/6655841cf2a00b764f855040aecb8803cfc5eaba
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UDOTAOJBCZKREZJPT6VZ25GESI5T6RBG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YGQN3OWQNHSMWKOF4D35PF5ASKNLC74B/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00010.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-16