Client denial of service via bitmap length underflow
Published Mar 13, 2026 · Updated Mar 13, 2026
Integer underflow in FreeRDP before 3.24.0 allows remote attackers to interrupt a client via a crafted compressed bitmap order. In update_read_cache_bitmap_order, an unsigned network length below eight is decremented by eight before validation, wrapping to a huge value used for allocation and stream reading. Exploitation requires a client to connect to an attacker-controlled RDP server and results in memory exhaustion or process termination, not data access or modification.
Summary
What happened
Integer underflow in FreeRDP before 3.24.0 allows remote attackers to interrupt a client via a crafted compressed bitmap order. In update_read_cache_bitmap_order, an unsigned network length below eight is decremented by eight before validation, wrapping to a huge value used for allocation and stream reading. Exploitation requires a client to connect to an attacker-controlled RDP server and results in memory exhaustion or process termination, not data access or modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-29776
- Published
- Mar 13, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 13, 2026
- Vendor
- FreeRDP
- Product
- FreeRDP
- Classifications
- CWE-190, CWE-191, CWE-789, CWE-400, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Mar 13, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 13, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 3.24.0
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