Red Hat Security Advisory: freerdp security update
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in FreeRDP, a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) used by clients such as xfreerdp. These include heap-use-after-free, heap-buffer-overflow, NULL pointer dereference, denial of service, and arbitrary code execution issues. The vulnerabilities affect FreeRDP versions included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat has issued an important security advisory with updates addressing these issues.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This advisory covers a set of twelve security vulnerabilities in FreeRDP, including heap-use-after-free (CVE-2026-22856, CVE-2026-24491, CVE-2026-24675, CVE-2026-24681, CVE-2026-24684), heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2026-22852, CVE-2026-22854, CVE-2026-24679), denial of service via buffer overflow and use-after-free (CVE-2026-23732, CVE-2026-24676), NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2026-23948), and arbitrary code execution via crafted RDP server messages (CVE-2026-31806). These vulnerabilities affect the FreeRDP client implementations used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. The advisory references fixes available in updated packages and provides links for applying the updates.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities collectively allow for potential denial of service conditions, crashes due to memory corruption, and in the case of CVE-2026-31806, arbitrary code execution triggered by maliciously crafted RDP server messages. This could lead to compromise of systems running vulnerable FreeRDP client versions. The advisory rates the overall impact as Important (high severity).
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated packages for FreeRDP in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply these official updates as detailed in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:9640 (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9640) and the update instructions at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation steps are specified beyond applying the provided patches.
Red Hat Security Advisory: freerdp security update
Description
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in FreeRDP, a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) used by clients such as xfreerdp. These include heap-use-after-free, heap-buffer-overflow, NULL pointer dereference, denial of service, and arbitrary code execution issues. The vulnerabilities affect FreeRDP versions included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat has issued an important security advisory with updates addressing these issues.
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This advisory covers a set of twelve security vulnerabilities in FreeRDP, including heap-use-after-free (CVE-2026-22856, CVE-2026-24491, CVE-2026-24675, CVE-2026-24681, CVE-2026-24684), heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2026-22852, CVE-2026-22854, CVE-2026-24679), denial of service via buffer overflow and use-after-free (CVE-2026-23732, CVE-2026-24676), NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2026-23948), and arbitrary code execution via crafted RDP server messages (CVE-2026-31806). These vulnerabilities affect the FreeRDP client implementations used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. The advisory references fixes available in updated packages and provides links for applying the updates.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities collectively allow for potential denial of service conditions, crashes due to memory corruption, and in the case of CVE-2026-31806, arbitrary code execution triggered by maliciously crafted RDP server messages. This could lead to compromise of systems running vulnerable FreeRDP client versions. The advisory rates the overall impact as Important (high severity).
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated packages for FreeRDP in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply these official updates as detailed in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:9640 (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9640) and the update instructions at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation steps are specified beyond applying the provided patches.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2026:9640
- Cve Count
- 12
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2026-22854","CVE-2026-22856","CVE-2026-23732","CVE-2026-23948","CVE-2026-24491","CVE-2026-24675","CVE-2026-24676","CVE-2026-24679","CVE-2026-24681","CVE-2026-24684","CVE-2026-31806"]
Threat ID: 6a27e9928dd33fbd85169544
Added to database: 06/09/2026, 10:23:14 UTC
Last enriched: 08/18/2026, 13:52:40 UTC
Last updated: 09/14/2026, 22:01:32 UTC
Views: 67
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