RHEL 10 : freerdp (RHSA-2026:97219)

high Nessus Plugin ID 378200

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:97219 advisory.

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license.
The xfreerdp client can connect to RDP servers such as Microsoft Windows machines, xrdp, and VirtualBox.

Security Fix(es):

* freerdp: FreeRDP: Denial of Service via endless blocking loop in Stream_EnsureCapacity (CVE-2026-27951)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* Update freerdp to the latest upstream stable release (JIRA:RHEL-80426)

* FreeRDP does not create context for hostnames longer than 31 characters (JIRA:RHEL-143809)

* SSL warnings under FIPS (JIRA:RHEL-140202)

* [RFE] Add RDP Smart Card Redirection Support (MS?RDPESC) to Enable Remote (Virtualized) SmartCard?Based PKINIT Authentication (JIRA:RHEL-171999)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 378200

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-97219.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/10/2026

Updated: 11/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.64

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-27951

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freerdp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freerdp-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freerdp-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freerdp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwinpr-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwinpr

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-27951

CWE: 190

RHSA: 2026:97219

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