| Name | CVE-2025-4478 |
| Description | A flaw was found in the FreeRDP used by Anaconda's remote install feature, where a crafted RDP packet could trigger a segmentation fault. This issue causes the service to crash and remain defunct, resulting in a denial of service. It occurs pre-boot and is likely due to a NULL pointer dereference. Rebooting is required to recover the system. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1105917 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| freerdp2 (PTS) | bullseye | 2.3.0+dfsg1-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2.3.0+dfsg1-2+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.10.0+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
| freerdp3 (PTS) | sid, trixie | 3.15.0+dfsg-2.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| freerdp2 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| freerdp3 | source | (unstable) | 3.15.0+dfsg-2.1 | | | 1105917 |
Notes
- freerdp2 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2365232#c9
Vulnerability in freerdp code, which transitively affects gnome-remote-desktop
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/pull/11573
Introduced by: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/cf2daeb01d3325a9de97348047caf4b8974f2b76 (3.0.0-beta1)
Fixed by: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/a4bb702aa62e4fad91ca99142de075265555ec18