CVE-2026-31883Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Freerdp

Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
CNA6.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 85.16%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 13

Description

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.24.0, a size_t underflow in the IMA-ADPCM and MS-ADPCM audio decoders leads to heap-buffer-overflow write via the RDPSND audio channel. In libfreerdp/codec/dsp.c, the IMA-ADPCM and MS-ADPCM decoders subtract block header sizes from a size_t variable without checking for underflow. When nBlockAlign (received from the server) is set such that size % block_size == 0 triggers the header parsing at a point where size is small

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

CVEListV5freerdp/freerdp< 3.24.0
NVDfreerdp/freerdp< 3.24.0

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
CVEList
FreeRDP has a `size_t` underflow in ADPCM decoder leads to heap-buffer-overflow write2026-03-13
OSV
CVE-2026-31883: FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol2026-03-13

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via crafted audio data in RDP2026-03-13
Debian
CVE-2026-31883: freerdp2 - FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.24.0...2026

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2026-31883 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz