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wid-sec-w-2026-0725  ·  Published 2026-03-12  ·  View on BSI CERT-Bund ↗

FreeRDP: Multiple Vulnerabilities

CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL

Risk Summary

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.24.0, a size_t underflow in the IMA-ADPCM and MS-ADPCM audio decoders leads to heap-buffer-overflow write via the RDPSND audio channel. In libfreerdp/codec/dsp.c, the IMA-ADPCM and MS-ADPCM decoders subtract block header sizes from a size_t variable without checking for underflow. When nBlockAlign (received from the server) is set such that size % block_size == 0 triggers the header parsing at a point where size is smaller than the header (4 or 8 bytes), the subtraction wraps size to ~SIZE_MAX. The while (size > 0) loop then continues for an astronomical number of iterations. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.24.0.

Affected Vendors

Amazon Fedora Open Source Oracle RESF Red Hat SUSE

Affected Products (2)

Open Source · FreeRDP <3.24.0
Open Source · FreeRDP 3.24.0

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