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CVE-2026-91954

FreeRDP: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via crafted Surface Bits command

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 16, 2026

Updated · November 2, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in FreeRDP. A malicious Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server can trigger a null pointer dereference in the gdi_surface_bits function by sending a specially crafted Surface Bits command that claims to use the NSCodec codec ID. This vulnerability exists even when the NSCodec is disabled in the client. Successful exploitation allows a remote attacker to cause a FreeRDP client to crash, leading to a denial of service.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

To mitigate this issue, users should avoid connecting to untrusted or unknown RDP servers with FreeRDP clients. This vulnerability requires a FreeRDP client to connect to a malicious RDP server to be exploited.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference