Fedora 39: xrdp 2023-5134642a68
Summary
xrdp provides a fully functional RDP server compatible with a wide range
of RDP clients, including FreeRDP and Microsoft RDP client.
Update Information:
Release notes for xrdp v0.9.23 (2023/08/31) General announcements - Running xrdp and xrdp-sesman on separate hosts is still supported by this release, but is now deprecated. This is not secure. A future v1.0 release will replace the TCP socket used between these processes with a Unix Domain Socket, and then cross-host running will not be possible. Security fixes - CVE-2023-40184: Improper handling of session establishment errors allows bypassing OS-level session restrictions (Reported by @gafusss) Bug fixes - Environment variables set by PAM modules are no longer restricted to around 250 characters (#2712) - X11 clipboard clients now no longer hang when requesting a clipboard format which isn't available (#2767) New features No new features in this release. Internal changes - Introduce release tarball generation script (#2703) - cppcheck version used for CI bumped to 2.11 (#2738) Known issues - On-the-fly resolution change requires the Microsoft Store version of Remote Desktop client but sometimes crashes on connect (#1869) - xrdp's login dialog is not relocated at the center of the new resolution after on-the-fly resolution change happens (#1867)
Change Log
* Fri Sep 1 2023 Bojan Smojver
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2236307 - CVE-2023-40184 xrdp: xdp: restriction bypass via improper session handling [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2236307 [ 2 ] Bug #2236308 - CVE-2023-40184 xrdp: xdp: restriction bypass via improper session handling [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2236308
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-5134642a68' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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