vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4815-1 (CVE-2017-6967): xrdp vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 17, 2017
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

It was discovered that xrdp did not properly validate certain input in the
session manager. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service or other unspecified impact. (CVE-2017-16927)

It was discovered that xrdp did not properly initialize PAM session
modules. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate
privileges. (CVE-2017-6967)

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-xrdp
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