AlmaLinux 8 : gnome-remote-desktop (ALSA-2025:10742)

high Nessus Plugin ID 241972

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

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.

Solution

Update the affected gnome-remote-desktop package.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-10742.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10742

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 241972

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-10742.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/11/2025

Updated: 7/11/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5024

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:gnome-remote-desktop, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::supplementary

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5024

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2025:10742