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xrdp — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2023-42822

xrdp is an open source remote desktop protocol server. Access to the font glyphs in xrdp_painter.c is not bounds-checked . Since some of this data is controllable by the user, this can result in an out-of-bounds read within the xrdp executable. The vulnerability allows an out-of-bounds read within a potentially privileged process. On non-Debian platforms, xrdp tends to run as root. Potentially an out-of-bounds write can follow the out-of-bounds read. There is no denial-of-service impact, providing xrdp is running in forking mode. This issue has been addressed in release 0.9.23.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Products
xrdp
Affected versions
0.9.21.1-1
Fixed versions
0.9.21.1-1+deb12u1, 0.9.24-2
CVEs
CVE-2023-42822
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 16:25 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-42822

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Sept 2023, 18:15 UTC

xrdp is an open source remote desktop protocol server. Access to the font glyphs in xrdp_painter.c is not bounds-checked . Since some of this data is controllable by the user, this can result in an out-of-bounds read within the xrdp executable. The vulnerability allows an out-of-bounds read within a potentially privileged process. On non-Debian platforms, xrdp tends to run as root. Potentially an out-of-bounds write can follow the out-of-bounds read. There is no denial-of-service impact, providing xrdp is running in forking mode. This issue has been addressed in release 0.9.23.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-42822

xrdp

Fixed versions: 0.9.21.1-1+deb12u1

xrdp

Fixed versions: 0.9.24-2

xrdp

Fixed versions: 0.9.24-2

Complete source record
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