A denial-of-service flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop. An unauthenticated remote attacker can open RDP connections without completing the handshake and retain the connection-throttling slots indefinitely because no pre-authentication handshake deadline is enforced. By exhausting the global connection limit, an attacker can prevent new RDP clients from connecting until a holding socket is closed.
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Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:15:00 +0000
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Gnome
Gnome gnome-remote-desktop |
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Gnome
Gnome gnome-remote-desktop |
Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0000
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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:30:00 +0000
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| Description | A denial-of-service flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop. An unauthenticated remote attacker can open RDP connections without completing the handshake and retain the connection-throttling slots indefinitely because no pre-authentication handshake deadline is enforced. By exhausting the global connection limit, an attacker can prevent new RDP clients from connecting until a holding socket is closed. | |
| Title | Gnome-remote-desktop: gnome-remote-desktop: unauthenticated rdp sockets lack a handshake deadline | |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2026-09-23T18:08:23.661Z
Updated: 2026-10-14T03:59:26.286Z
Reserved: 2026-09-23T12:16:46.357Z
Link: CVE-2026-96541
Updated: 2026-09-23T19:24:28.479Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-09-23T19:19:54.080
Modified: 2026-10-14T04:19:01.200
Link: CVE-2026-96541
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