RHSA-2026:94514 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for freerdp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. The xfreerdp client can connect to RDP servers such as Microsoft Windows machines, xrdp, and VirtualBox.

Security Fix(es):

• freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via uninitialized progressive tile handling (CVE-2026-109242)
• freerdp: FreeRDP 3.0.0-beta1 before 3.32.0 Use-After-Free via Smartcard Connect (CVE-2026-109676)
• freerdp: FreeRDP: Unauthenticated keystroke injection via premature input dispatch (CVE-2026-110838)
• freerdp: freerdp: Denial of Service via file descriptor exhaustion in serial device handling (CVE-2026-110830)
• freerdp: freerdp: Denial of Service via heap-based buffer overflow during MP3 audio decoding (CVE-2026-110837)
• freerdp: freerdp: Denial of Service via unbounded memory consumption during RDPDR reassembly (CVE-2026-110833)
• freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via grayscale JPEG clipboard conversion (CVE-2026-110839)
• freerdp: freerdp: Denial of Service via memory exhaustion in NLA frame parser (CVE-2026-111378)
• freerdp: FreeRDP: Arbitrary code execution via crafted persistent cache file (CVE-2026-111379)
• freerdp: freerdp: Arbitrary code execution via crafted persistent cache file (CVE-2026-111381)
• freerdp: freerdp: Arbitrary code execution via crafted display frames (CVE-2026-111382)
• freerdp: freerdp: Denial of Service via heap out-of-bounds write in NTLM authentication (CVE-2026-111880)
• freerdp: FreeRDP: heap buffer overflow in server rdpsnd via crafted audio formats (CVE-2026-114045)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• Rebase FreeRDP to 3.32.2 or newer [rhel-10.2.z] (JIRA:RHEL-277442)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 10.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 10 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 10.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 10 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 10.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 10 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.2 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 10 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 10 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 10 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 10 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 10.2 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 10.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 10.2 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 10.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 10.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - 4 years of support 10.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - 4 years of updates 10.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 10.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 10.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 10.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle 10.2 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2549790 - CVE-2026-109242 freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via uninitialized progressive tile handling
• BZ - 2550539 - CVE-2026-109676 freerdp: FreeRDP 3.0.0-beta1 before 3.32.0 Use-After-Free via Smartcard Connect
• BZ - 2552961 - CVE-2026-110838 freerdp: FreeRDP: Unauthenticated keystroke injection via premature input dispatch
• BZ - 2552970 - CVE-2026-110830 freerdp: freerdp: Denial of Service via file descriptor exhaustion in serial device handling
• BZ - 2552978 - CVE-2026-110837 freerdp: freerdp: Denial of Service via heap-based buffer overflow during MP3 audio decoding
• BZ - 2552988 - CVE-2026-110833 freerdp: freerdp: Denial of Service via unbounded memory consumption during RDPDR reassembly
• BZ - 2552996 - CVE-2026-110839 freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via grayscale JPEG clipboard conversion
• BZ - 2553907 - CVE-2026-111378 freerdp: freerdp: Denial of Service via memory exhaustion in NLA frame parser
• BZ - 2553911 - CVE-2026-111379 freerdp: FreeRDP: Arbitrary code execution via crafted persistent cache file
• BZ - 2553917 - CVE-2026-111381 freerdp: freerdp: Arbitrary code execution via crafted persistent cache file
• BZ - 2553920 - CVE-2026-111382 freerdp: freerdp: Arbitrary code execution via crafted display frames
• BZ - 2554625 - CVE-2026-111880 freerdp: freerdp: Denial of Service via heap out-of-bounds write in NTLM authentication
• BZ - 2557974 - CVE-2026-114045 freerdp: FreeRDP: heap buffer overflow in server rdpsnd via crafted audio formats

CVEs

• CVE-2026-109242
• CVE-2026-109676
• CVE-2026-110830
• CVE-2026-110833
• CVE-2026-110837
• CVE-2026-110838
• CVE-2026-110839
• CVE-2026-111378
• CVE-2026-111379
• CVE-2026-111381
• CVE-2026-111382
• CVE-2026-111880
• CVE-2026-114045
• CVE-2026-121386
• CVE-2026-121388
• CVE-2026-121394
• CVE-2026-121402
• CVE-2026-121404

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important