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Medium RLSA-2026:97219 1 CVE

Moderate: freerdp security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Nov 13, 2026 · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Summary

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):

* freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via endless blocking loop in Stream_EnsureCapacity (CVE-2026-27951)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* Update freerdp to the latest upstream stable release (JIRA:Rocky Linux-80426)

* FreeRDP does not create context for hostnames longer than 31 characters (JIRA:Rocky Linux-143809)

* SSL warnings under FIPS (JIRA:Rocky Linux-140202)

* [RFE] Add RDP Smart Card Redirection Support (MS?RDPESC) to Enable Remote (Virtualized) SmartCard?Based PKINIT Authentication (JIRA:Rocky Linux-171999)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 10 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 44

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-debugsource 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-debugsource 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-debugsource 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-debugsource 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-devel 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-devel 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-devel 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-devel 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-libs 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-libs 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-libs 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-libs 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-libs-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-libs-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-libs-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-libs-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-server 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-server 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-server 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-server 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-server-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-server-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-server-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 freerdp-server-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 libwinpr 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 libwinpr 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 libwinpr 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 libwinpr 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 libwinpr-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 libwinpr-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 libwinpr-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 libwinpr-debuginfo 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 libwinpr-devel 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 libwinpr-devel 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 libwinpr-devel 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3
Rocky Linux · 10 libwinpr-devel 2:3.28.0-4.el10_3

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.3

    FreeRDP has possible Integer overflow in Stream_EnsureCapacity

    FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to version 3.23.0, the function `Stream_EnsureCapacity` can create an endless blocking loop. This may affect all client and server implementations using `FreeRDP`. For practical exploitati…

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2442783
  • advisory
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:97219