High severity · published Oct 4, 2019
CVE-2019-17178
HuffmanTree_makeFromFrequencies in lodepng.c in LodePNG through 2019-09-28, as used in WinPR in FreeRDP and other products, has a memory leak because a supplied realloc pointer…
7.5
CVSS
2.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
HuffmanTree_makeFromFrequencies in lodepng.c in LodePNG through 2019-09-28, as used in WinPR in FreeRDP and other products, has a memory leak because a supplied realloc pointer (i.e., the first argument to realloc) is also used for a realloc return value.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.6% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FR
Freerdp · Freerdp
through 1.0.2; 1.1.0 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.0; 15.1 · source: NVD
LO
Lodepng · Lodev
through 2019-09-28 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17178
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17178
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00004.html
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00005.html
Patch
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/9fee4ae076b1ec97b97efb79ece08d1dab4df29a
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/5645
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