CVE-2025-5024

Gnome-remote-desktop: uncontrolled resource consumption due to malformed rdp pdus

State: Published
Severity: 7.4 High
Published: May 22, 2025
Updated: Jun 30, 2026
Reserved: May 21, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.4 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat	0:47.3-2.el10_0 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat	0:0.1.8-4.el8_10 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update SupportRed Hat	0:0.1.6-9.el8_2.1 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update SupportRed Hat	0:0.1.8-4.el8_4 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-OnRed Hat	0:0.1.8-4.el8_4 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update SupportRed Hat	0:0.1.8-4.el8_6 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update ServiceRed Hat	0:0.1.8-4.el8_6 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat	0:0.1.8-4.el8_6 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update ServiceRed Hat	0:0.1.8-4.el8_8 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat	0:0.1.8-4.el8_8 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat	0:40.0-11.el9_6 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat	0:40.0-10.el9_0 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat	0:40.0-10.el9_2 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update SupportRed Hat	0:40.0-11.el9_4 and laterNot affected

References

RHSA-2025:10631vendor-advisory
RHSA-2025:10635vendor-advisory
RHSA-2025:10742vendor-advisory
RHSA-2025:11403vendor-advisory
RHSA-2025:11404vendor-advisory
RHSA-2025:11405vendor-advisory
RHSA-2025:11406vendor-advisory
RHSA-2025:11407vendor-advisory
RHSA-2025:11408vendor-advisory
RHSA-2025:11418vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5024vdb-entry
RHBZ#2367717issue-tracking
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/merge_requests/321

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