CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-17178 — Freerdp Freerdp security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

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.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2019-10-04
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-252, CWE-401

Affected products

  • freerdp / freerdp
  • freerdp / freerdp / 1.1.0
  • lodev / lodepng
  • opensuse / leap / 15.0
  • opensuse / leap / 15.1

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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