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

- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-10-12 · Updated: 2025-11-03

## Affected

- FreeRDP: through 2.8.0

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on FreeRDP, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

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

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