2.5.0 Maintenance and security release

Posted by Bernhard Miklautz on January 12, 2022

FreeRDP 2.5.0 has just been released and uploaded to

https://pub.freerdp.com/releases/

2.5.0 is a maintenance release that also addresses the following security related problems:

improve locale detection - invalid locales set in LANG could lead to a crash
fix and improve the registry parser - missing closing quotes could crash the registry parser
fix for addin file loader (library only function) - invalid file names could cause the invoking application to crash

Thanks to George Zaytsev from Positive Technologies for reporting these problems!

See our ChangeLog for a complete list of changes https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/blob/2.5.0/ChangeLog

Best regards, the FreeRDP team.