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RockyLinux 10 : freerdp (RLSA-2026:97219)

high Nessus Plugin ID 380082

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2026:97219 advisory.

 * 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:Rocky Linux-80426)

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

 * SSL warnings under FIPS (JIRA:Rocky Linux-140202)

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2442783

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:97219

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 380082

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-97219.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 11/13/2026

Updated: 11/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.64

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:rocky:linux:10, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freerdp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freerdp-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freerdp-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freerdp-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freerdp-libs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freerdp-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freerdp-server, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freerdp, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libwinpr-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libwinpr-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libwinpr

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-27951