CVE-2022-39283

Publication date 12 October 2022

Last updated 18 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
freerdp2	25.10 questing	Not in release
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 2.8.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu1
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 2.8.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu1
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2.8.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 2.8.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu1
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 2.8.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu1
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 2.8.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.6.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.3
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.2.0+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.20.04.4
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.2.0+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.18.04.4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support
freerdp	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

mdeslaur

malicious server could read uninitialized data from client

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
freerdp2	Upstream: be793c3

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5734-1
FreeRDP vulnerabilities
22 November 2022