FreeRDP up to 3.31.x RDPDR Channel heap-based overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in FreeRDP up to 3.31.x. This impacts an unknown function of the component RDPDR Channel. The manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-110833. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in FreeRDP up to 3.31.x. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component RDPDR Channel. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

FreeRDP from 3.0.0-beta1 before 3.32.0 fails to enforce cumulative or absolute size limits when reassembling RDPDR channel fragments in the proxy. Attackers can send a FIRST fragment followed by continuation fragments without LAST, growing per-session heap streams proportional to traffic and exhausting proxy memory.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-110833 since 10/15/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 3.32.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Productinfo

Type

• Remote Access Software

Name

• FreeRDP

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11
• 3.12
• 3.13
• 3.14
• 3.15
• 3.16
• 3.17
• 3.18
• 3.19
• 3.20
• 3.21
• 3.22
• 3.23
• 3.24
• 3.25
• 3.26
• 3.27
• 3.28
• 3.29
• 3.30
• 3.31

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/

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