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CVE-2021-41160

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CVE-2021-41160

Published: Oct 21, 2021

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.3

MEDIUM

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

FreeRDP

FreeRDP

affected
< 2.4.1

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

None

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