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CVE-2026-44422

Updated on 29 May 2026

Severity

8.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
8.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.26.0, FreeRDP’s RDPEAR NDR parser accepts one non-null NDR pointer ref-id for multiple logical pointer fields without tracking the pointed object’s expected NDR type or ownership. When the same ref-id is reused across two pointer fields, the parser assigns the same heap object to both output fields. The generic destructor later walks each field independently and destroys/frees both pointers. This causes a malicious-server-triggerable heap use-after-free / double-free in the FreeRDP client’s RDPEAR authentication-redirection path. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.26.0.

Details

Affected product:
Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS
Affected packages:
freerdp @ 2.1.1 (+2 more)
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.26.0, FreeRDP’s RDPEAR NDR parser accepts one non-null NDR pointer ref-id for multiple logical pointer fields without tracking the pointed object’s expected NDR type or ownership. When the same ref-id is reused across two pointer fields, the parser assigns the same heap object to both output fields. The generic destructor later walks each field independently and destroys/frees both pointers. This causes a malicious-server-triggerable heap use-after-free / double-free in the FreeRDP client’s RDPEAR authentication-redirection path. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.26.0.

Fixes