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

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-10-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

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

Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36, 37
FreeRDP: before 2.8.1 — fixed in 2.8.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: FreeRDP 2.8.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/releases/tag/2.8.1
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-6cf9-3328-qrvh
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00010.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HEWWYMGWIMD4RDCOGHWMZXUMBGZHC5NW/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RLZCF7YHNC5BECDPEJNAZUYGNNM7NFME/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UDOTAOJBCZKREZJPT6VZ25GESI5T6RBG/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-24
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/releases/tag/2.8.1
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-6cf9-3328-qrvh
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00010.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00016.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HEWWYMGWIMD4RDCOGHWMZXUMBGZHC5NW/

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