CVE-2026-67298
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
Description
FreeRDP versions 3.28.0 and earlier contain a heap buffer overflow in the server-side RAIL channel handler (rail_server_handle_messages() in channels/rail/server/rail_main.c). When processing a RAIL PDU header, the code subtracts RAIL_PDU_HEADER_LENGTH from the peer-controlled orderLength field without first verifying orderLength is at least the header length. For orderLength values 0..3 this causes an unsigned integer underflow to a very large size, which bypasses the Stream_EnsureRemainingCapacity() capacity check (due to pointer arithmetic wraparound) and is then passed to WTSVirtualChannelRead(), resulting in an out-of-bounds heap write. A malicious or compromised RDP client can exploit this to corrupt the heap and crash the server. Fixed in FreeRDP 3.29.0.
References
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/46848765f2a1134f8652f8760eefb5e85d64a9b8
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/5370fb26fbf034ecd11d3026b6ad639b5fff493f
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-qmvw-52ph-q5pv
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/freerdp-heap-buffer-overflow-via-rail-orderlength-underflow
- https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-5wr6-8m8j-3h7f