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Fedora 42: Advisory on Critical Buffer Overflow Issues in freerdp

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Calendar Grey January 21, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Freerdp updates address important buffer overflow issues for Fedora 42, ensuring secure remote access functionality.
Update to 3.20.2

Summary

The xfreerdp & wlfreerdp Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) clients from the FreeRDP

project.

xfreerdp & wlfreerdp can connect to RDP servers such as Microsoft Windows

machines, xrdp and VirtualBox.

Update Information:

Update to 3.20.2

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Change Log

* Wed Jan 14 2026 Ondrej Holy - 2:3.20.2-1 - Update to 3.20.2 * Wed Jan 14 2026 Ondrej Holy - 2:3.20.1-1 - Update to 3.20.1 Resolves: rhbz#2423151

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2429779 - CVE-2026-22857 freerdp: FreeRDP heap-use-after-free [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429779 [ 2 ] Bug #2429783 - CVE-2026-22852 freerdp: FreeRDP heap-buffer-overflow [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429783 [ 3 ] Bug #2429785 - CVE-2026-22859 freerdp: FreeRDP heap-buffer-overflow [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429785 [ 4 ] Bug #2429793 - CVE-2026-22853 freerdp: FreeRDP heap-buffer-overflow [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429793 [ 5 ] Bug #2429798 - CVE-2026-22854 freerdp: FreeRDP heap-buffer-overflow [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429798 [ 6 ] Bug #2429802 - CVE-2026-22855 freerdp: FreeRDP heap-buffer-overflow [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429802 [ 7 ] Bug #2429805 - CVE-2026-22858 freerdp: FreeRDP global-buffer-overflow [fedora-42] ...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-a193f1698f' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: freerdp
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 3.20.2
Release: 1.fc42
URL: http://www.freerdp.com/
Summary: Free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

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