cve-2021-41159
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-10-21 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 02:59
Severity ?
5.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
Improper client input validation for FreeRDP gateway connections allows to overwrite memory
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-vh34-m9h7-95xqThird Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DWJXQOWKNR7O5HM2HFJOM4GBUFPTE3RG/
security-advisories@github.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-24Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
FreeRDPFreeRDP
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