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Fedora 43 xrdp Highlights Key Stack Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2025-68670

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Calendar Grey February 8, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
xrdp v0.10.5 resolves important security issues including a stack overflow vulnerability in Fedora 43. Apply updates promptly.
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

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 v0.10.5 (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 #35...

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora important stack overflow RDP server cve-2025-68670

Change Log

* Wed Jan 28 2026 Bojan Smojver - 1:0.10.5-1 - Update to 0.10.5 * Sat Jan 17 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 1:0.10.4-5 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Nov 4 2025 Tom Callaway - 1:0.10.4-4 - rebuild for new fuse3

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1908387 - Windows with transparency show whatever is below https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1908387 [ 2 ] Bug #2279775 - xrdp socketdir not cleaned up on package removal https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2279775 [ 3 ] Bug #2322105 - AltGr on Spanish keyboards https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322105 [ 4 ] Bug #2323097 - Requesting clarification on the License of xrdp rpm. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2323097 [ 5 ] Bug #2433438 - CVE-2025-68670 xorgxrdp: xrdp: Remote code execution via unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow [epel-8] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2433438 [ 6 ] Bug #2433439 - CVE-2025-68670 xrdp: xrdp: Remote code execution via unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow [epel-8] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2433439 [ 7 ] Bug #2433440 - CVE-2025-68670 xorgxrdp: xrdp: Remote code execution via unauthenticat...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-febea89ac3' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: xrdp
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 0.10.5
Release: 1.fc43
URL: http://www.xrdp.org/
Summary: Open source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server

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security advisory fedora important stack overflow RDP server cve-2025-68670

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