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Fedora 42 : xorgxrdp / xrdp (2026-b409dad73e)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 298310

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-b409dad73e advisory.

 Release notes for xrdp v0.10.5 (2026/01/27)

 Security fixes

 - CVE-2025-68670: Improper bounds checking of domain string length leads to Stack-based Buffer Overflow

 New features

 - It is now possible to start the xrdp daemon entirely unprivileged from the service manager (#3599 #3603). If you do this certain restrictions will apply. See https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/wiki/Running-the-xrdp-process-as-non-root for details.
 - TLS pre-master secrets can now be recorded for packet captures (#3617)
 - Add a FuseRootReportMaxFree to work around 'no free space' issues with some file managers (#3639)
 - Alternate shell names can now be passed to startwm.sh in an environment variable for more system management control (#3624 #3651)
 - Updated Xorg paths in sesman.ini to include more recent distros (#3663)
 - Add Slovenian keyboard (#3668 #3670)
 - xrdpapi: Add a way to monitor connect/disconnect events (#3693)

 Bug fixes

 - Allow an empty X11 UTF8_STRING to be pasted to the clipboard (#3580 #3582)
 - Fix a regression introduced in v0.10.x, where it became impossible to connect to a VNC server which did not support the ExtendedDesktopSize encoding (#3540 #3584)
 - Fix a regression introduced in v0.10.x related to PAM groups handling (#3594)
 - Inconsistencies with [MS-RDPBCGR] have been addressed (#3608)
 - A reference to uninitialised data within the verify_user_pam_userpass.c module has been fixed (#3638)
 - Prevent some possible crashes when the RFX encoder is resized (#3590 #3644)
 - Fixes a regression introduced by GFX development which prevented the JPEG encoder from working correctly (#3649)
 - Fixes a regression introduced by #2974 which resulted in the xrdp PID file being deleted unexpectedly (#3650)
 - Do not overwrite a VNC port set by the user when not using sesman (#3674)
 - Fix regression from 0.9.x when freerdp client uses /workarea (#3618 #3676)
 - Fixes a crash where a resize is attempted with drdynvc disabled (#3672 #3680)
 - getgrouplist() now compiles on MacOS (#3575)
 - Various Coverity warnings have been addressed (#3656)
 - Documentation improvements (#3665)

 Internal changes

 - An unnecessary include of sys/signal.h causing a compile warning on MUSL-C has been removed (#3679)

 Release notes for xorgxrdp v0.10.5 (2026/01/28)

 Bug fixes

 - Fix bug in Chrome pointer detection (#394 #396)

 Internal changes

 - CI: Update FreeBSD xrdp dependency (#398)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected 1:xrdp and / or xorgxrdp packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-b409dad73e

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 298310

File Name: fedora_2026-b409dad73e.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/7/2026

Updated: 2/7/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-68670

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xorgxrdp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xrdp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/28/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-68670