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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-11046

In FreeRDP after 1.0 and before 2.0.0, there is a stream out-of-bounds seek in update_read_synchronize that could lead to a later out-of-bounds read.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:33 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-11046

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 May 2020, 19:15 UTC

In FreeRDP after 1.0 and before 2.0.0, there is a stream out-of-bounds seek in update_read_synchronize that could lead to a later out-of-bounds read.

osv:CVE-2020-11046
Complete source record
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