Bug 2567569 (CVE-2026-121955)

Summary: CVE-2026-121955 freerdp: freerdp: Denial of Service via use-after-free in smartcard emulation
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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A flaw was found in FreeRDP. A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the smartcard emulation feature where a smartcard context is released before its background worker thread is properly terminated. A malicious server can exploit this by sending a crafted sequence of smartcard I/O Request Packets (IRPs) to a client with smartcard redirection enabled. Successful exploitation can corrupt memory or cause the client application to crash, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-05 22:08:33 UTC
FreeRDP before 3.32.2 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in Emulate_SCardReleaseContext that frees the emulated SCardContext before its worker thread is cancelled and joined. A malicious server can send ESTABLISHCONTEXT, a long-timeout GETSTATUSCHANGE, then RELEASECONTEXT smartcard IRPs to corrupt heap memory or crash clients using smartcard emulation.