A flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop. Once gnome-remote-desktop listens for RDP connections, an unauthenticated attacker can exhaust system resources and repeatedly crash the process. There may be a resource leak after many attacks, which will also result in gnome-remote-desktop no longer being able to open files even after it is restarted via systemd.

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2025:10631 advisory.

    * gnome-remote-desktop: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption due to Malformed RDP PDUs (CVE-2025-5024)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

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

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2025:10742 advisory.

    * gnome-remote-desktop: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption due to Malformed RDP PDUs (CVE-2025-5024)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

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

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-10742 advisory.

    [0.1.8-4]
    - Backport connection throttling       Resolves: RHEL-92791

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:10742 advisory.

    GNOME Remote Desktop is a remote desktop and screen sharing service for the GNOME desktop environment.

    Security Fix(es):

    * gnome-remote-desktop: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption due to Malformed RDP PDUs (CVE-2025-5024)

    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.

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.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-10631 advisory.

    [40.0-11]
    - Backport connection throttling       Resolves: RHEL-92795

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

The remote Oracle Linux 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-10635 advisory.

    [47.3-2]
    - Backport connection throttling       Resolves: RHEL-92787

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:10635 advisory.

    GNOME Remote Desktop is a remote desktop and screen sharing service for the GNOME desktop environment.

    Security Fix(es):

    * gnome-remote-desktop: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption due to Malformed RDP PDUs (CVE-2025-5024)

    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.

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:10631 advisory.

    GNOME Remote Desktop is a remote desktop and screen sharing service for the GNOME desktop environment.

    Security Fix(es):

    * gnome-remote-desktop: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption due to Malformed RDP PDUs (CVE-2025-5024)

    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.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
242002	AlmaLinux 9 : gnome-remote-desktop (ALSA-2025:10631)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	high
241972	AlmaLinux 8 : gnome-remote-desktop (ALSA-2025:10742)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	high
241686	Oracle Linux 8 : gnome-remote-desktop (ELSA-2025-10742)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
241669	RHEL 8 : gnome-remote-desktop (RHSA-2025:10742)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
241663	Oracle Linux 9 : gnome-remote-desktop (ELSA-2025-10631)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
241619	Oracle Linux 10 : gnome-remote-desktop (ELSA-2025-10635)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
241572	RHEL 10 : gnome-remote-desktop (RHSA-2025:10635)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
241528	RHEL 9 : gnome-remote-desktop (RHSA-2025:10631)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high

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