vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6474-1 (CVE-2022-23613): xrdp vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 7, 2022
Added
Nov 13, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

xrdp is an open source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server. In affected versions an integer underflow leading to a heap overflow in the sesman server allows any unauthenticated attacker which is able to locally access a sesman server to execute code as root. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.9.18.1 and above. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-xrdp
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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