freerdp2 — security advisory
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.
- Products
- freerdp2
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.8.1+dfsg1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-39283
- 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. 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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-39283
freerdp2
Fixed versions: 2.8.1+dfsg1-1
Complete source record
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