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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-29774 EUVD-2026-12055

FreeRDP has a heap-buffer-overflow in avc420_yuv_to_rgb via OOB regionRects

Published Mar 13, 2026 · Updated Mar 16, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.24.0, a client-side heap buffer overflow occurs in the FreeRDP client's AVC420/AVC444 YUV-to-RGB conversion path due to missing horizontal bounds validation of H.264 metablock regionRects coordinates. In yuv.c, the clamp() function (line 347) only validates top/bottom against the surface/YUV height, but never checks left/right against the surface width. When avc420_yuv_to_rgb (line 67) computes destination and source pointers using rect->left, it performs unchecked pointer arithmetic that can reach far beyond the allocated surface buffer. A malicious server sends a WIRE_TO_SURFACE_PDU_1 with AVC420 codec containing a regionRects entry where left greatly exceeds the surface width (e.g., left=60000 on a 128px surface). The H.264 bitstream decodes successfully, then yuv420_process_work_callback calls avc420_yuv_to_rgb which computes pDstPoint = pDstData + rect->top * nDstStep + rect->left * 4, writing 16-byte SSE vectors 1888+ bytes past the allocated heap region. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.24.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
FreeRDP FreeRDP < 3.24.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 freerdp3 3.24.0+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 freerdp3 3.15.0+dfsg-2.1+deb13u2 —
Debian 12 freerdp2 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS freerdp3 3.30.0+dfsg-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 USN-8561-1
Ubuntu 25.10 freerdp3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS freerdp3 3.30.0+dfsg-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 USN-8561-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS freerdp2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS freerdp No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS freerdp No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS freerdp2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS freerdp2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS freerdp2 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed freerdp 3.24.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10408-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 freerdp 3.24.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 freerdp 3.24.0-r0 —

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 freerdp +5 2:3.6.3-1.amzn2023.0.8 ALAS2023-2026-1520
Amazon Linux 2 freerdp +4 2:2.11.7-1.amzn2.0.9 ALAS2-2026-3239

Advisories 5

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