RHSA-2026:16485 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: freerdp security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · May 13, 2026
Updated · October 7, 2026
Topic
An update for freerdp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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):
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freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of service due to use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2026-25952)
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freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via double free vulnerability during disconnect (CVE-2026-26986)
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freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via endless blocking loop in Stream_EnsureCapacity (CVE-2026-27951)
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freerdp: FreeRDP has a heap-buffer-overflow in bitmap_cache_put via OOB cacheId (CVE-2026-29775)
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freerdp: FreeRDP has an out-of-bounds read in ADPCM decoders due to missing predictor/step_index bounds checks (CVE-2026-31885)
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freerdp: FreeRDP has a division-by-zero in ADPCM decoders when
nBlockAlignis 0 (CVE-2026-31884) -
freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via crafted audio data in RDP (CVE-2026-31883)
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FreeRDP: FreeRDP: Information disclosure via heap memory out of bounds read (CVE-2026-33985)
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.