freerdp2 — security advisory
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients. FreeRDP based clients on unix systems using `/parallel` command line switch might read uninitialized data and send it to the server the client is currently connected to. FreeRDP based server implementations are not affected. Please upgrade to 2.8.1 where this issue is patched. If unable to upgrade, do not use parallel port redirection (`/parallel` command line switch) as a workaround.
- Products
- freerdp2
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.8.1+dfsg1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-39282
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 15:31 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients. FreeRDP based clients on unix systems using `/parallel` command line switch might read uninitialized data and send it to the server the client is currently connected to. FreeRDP based server implementations are not affected. Please upgrade to 2.8.1 where this issue is patched. If unable to upgrade, do not use parallel port redirection (`/parallel` command line switch) as a workaround.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-39282
freerdp2
Fixed versions: 2.8.1+dfsg1-1
Complete source record
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