# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-29774"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-13T17:26:58.208Z"
updatedAt: "2026-03-16T17:05:01.346Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-29774"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-29774.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-29774"
title: "FreeRDP has a heap-buffer-overflow in avc420_yuv_to_rgb via OOB regionRects"
summary: "FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.24.0, a client-side heap buffer overflow occurs in the FreeRDP client's AVC420/AVC444 YUV-to-RGB conversion path due to missing horizontal bounds validation of H.264 metablock regionRects coordinates.  In yuv.c, the clamp() function (line 347) only validates top/bottom against the surface/YUV height, but never checks left/right against the surface width. When avc420_yuv_to_rgb (line 67) computes destination and source pointers using rect-\u003eleft, it performs unchecked pointer arithmetic that can reach far beyond the allocated surface buffer. A malicious server sends a WIRE_TO_SURFACE_PDU_1 with AVC420 codec containing a regionRects entry where left greatly exceeds the surface width (e.g., left=60000 on a 128px surface). The H.264 bitstream decodes successfully, then yuv420_process_work_callback calls avc420_yuv_to_rgb which computes pDstPoint = pDstData + rect-\u003etop * nDstStep + rect-\u003eleft * 4, writing 16-byte SSE vectors 1888+ bytes past the allocated heap region. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.24.0."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 3.24.0","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"FreeRDP","product":"FreeRDP"}]

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