Bug 2453223 (CVE-2026-33952)

Summary: CVE-2026-33952 FreeRDP: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via unvalidated authentication length field
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A flaw was found in FreeRDP, a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). A remote attacker, by operating a malicious RDP Gateway, can exploit an unvalidated authentication length field. This can cause a FreeRDP client connecting through the gateway to crash, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) for the client.
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Bug Depends On: 2453257, 2453259, 2453258    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-03-30 22:02:07 UTC
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to version 3.24.2, an unvalidated auth_length field read from the network triggers a WINPR_ASSERT() failure in rts_read_auth_verifier_no_checks(), causing any FreeRDP client connecting through a malicious RDP Gateway to crash with SIGABRT. This is a pre-authentication denial of service affecting all FreeRDP clients using RPC-over-HTTP gateway transport. The assertion is active in default release builds (WITH_VERBOSE_WINPR_ASSERT=ON). This issue has been patched in version 3.24.2.