CVE-2023-40186: Debian Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. Affected versions are subject to an IntegerOverflow leading to Out-Of-Bound Write Vulnerability in the `gdi_CreateSurface` function. This issue affects FreeRDP based clients only. FreeRDP proxies are not affected as image decoding is not done by a proxy. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.11.0 and 3.0.0-beta3. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only; version 38 only; version 39 only
• Freerdp Freerdp: before 2.11.0 (fixed in 2.11.0); version 3.0.0 only

Published 2023-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.