CVE-2026-55191CWE-122CWE-190

CVE-2026-55191

Critical · published August 19, 2026

CVSS v3.1
9.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
49.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.27.0, FreeRDP clients that negotiate RDPGFX AVC444 with an H.264 decoder backend calculate the intermediate YUV444 allocation size in libfreerdp/codec/h264.c with 32-bit multiplication in avc444_ensure_buffer. A malicious RDP server can supply surface dimensions for which piDstStride multiplied by padDstHeight wraps to a small nonzero value, causing winpr_aligned_recalloc to allocate an undersized buffer before YUV420CombineToYUV444 writes using the actual stride and rectangle dimensions. This can cause a client crash and may permit code execution through attacker-influenced heap corruption. This issue is fixed in version 3.27.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.8 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00619 · 49.0th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow; CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Published
2026-08-19T22:16Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
freerdp/freerdp< 3.27.03.27.0
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 17:44Z
    FreeRDP: Heap-buffer-overflow write in AVC444 YUV buffer allocation
    cvelistv5