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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-13397

An issue was discovered in FreeRDP before 2.1.1. An out-of-bounds (OOB) read vulnerability has been detected in security_fips_decrypt in libfreerdp/core/security.c due to an uninitialized value.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:34 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-13397

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 May 2020, 18:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in FreeRDP before 2.1.1. An out-of-bounds (OOB) read vulnerability has been detected in security_fips_decrypt in libfreerdp/core/security.c due to an uninitialized value.

osv:CVE-2020-13397
Complete source record
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