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oesa-2021-1424

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler

Published

2021-11-09 11:04

Modified

2026-08-06 11:04

Summary

freerdp security update

Details

FreeRDP is a client implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) that follows Microsoft's open specifications. This package provides the client applications xfreerdp and wlfreerdp.

Security Fix(es):

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. In affected versions a malicious server might trigger out of bound writes in a connected client. Connections using GDI or SurfaceCommands to send graphics updates to the client might send 0 width/height or out of bound rectangles to trigger out of bound writes. With 0 width or heigth the memory allocation will be 0 but the missing bounds checks allow writing to the pointer at this (not allocated) region. This issue has been patched in FreeRDP 2.4.1.(CVE-2021-41160)

Severity

6.0 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41160	ADVISORY

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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "aarch64": [
          "freerdp-2.4.1-1.oe1.aarch64.rpm",
          "freerdp-debuginfo-2.4.1-1.oe1.aarch64.rpm",
          "freerdp-help-2.4.1-1.oe1.aarch64.rpm",
          "libwinpr-2.4.1-1.oe1.aarch64.rpm",
          "libwinpr-devel-2.4.1-1.oe1.aarch64.rpm",
          "freerdp-debugsource-2.4.1-1.oe1.aarch64.rpm",
          "freerdp-devel-2.4.1-1.oe1.aarch64.rpm"
        ],
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  "database_specific": {
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "FreeRDP is a client implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) that follows Microsoft\u0026apos;s open specifications. This package provides the client applications xfreerdp and wlfreerdp.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\r\n\r\nFreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. In affected versions a malicious server might trigger out of bound writes in a connected client. Connections using GDI or SurfaceCommands to send graphics updates to the client might send `0` width/height or out of bound rectangles to trigger out of bound writes. With `0` width or heigth the memory allocation will be `0` but the missing bounds checks allow writing to the pointer at this (not allocated) region. This issue has been patched in FreeRDP 2.4.1.(CVE-2021-41160)",
  "id": "OESA-2021-1424",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:04:41Z",
  "published": "2021-11-09T11:04:41Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2021-1424"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41160"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.2",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "freerdp security update",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2021-41160"
  ]
}

CVE-2021-41160 (GCVE-0-2021-41160)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-21 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:33

Title

Improper region checks in FreeRDP allow out of bound write to memory

Summary

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. In affected versions a malicious server might trigger out of bound writes in a connected client. Connections using GDI or SurfaceCommands to send graphics updates to the client might send `0` width/height or out of bound rectangles to trigger out of bound writes. With `0` width or heigth the memory allocation will be `0` but the missing bounds checks allow writing to the pointer at this (not allocated) region. This issue has been patched in FreeRDP 2.4.1.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advis…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-24	vendor-advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
FreeRDP	FreeRDP	Affected: < 2.4.1

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