Mageia 7: 2021-0016 Moderate: XRDP Denial Of Service Risk
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January 10, 2021
Ashley Newson discovered that the XRDP sessions manager was susceptible to denial of service
Summary
Ashley Newson discovered that the XRDP sessions manager was susceptible to
denial of service. A local attacker can further take advantage of this flaw to
impersonate the XRDP sessions manager and capture any user credentials that are
submitted to XRDP, approve or reject arbitrary login credentials or to hijack
existing sessions for xorgxrdp sessions (CVE-2020-4044).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26931
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/msg00143.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/7FYD6USHZXDI2EAZVGOVFMAE7ILP3SPL/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-4044
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/xrdp-0.9.10-1.1.mga7
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Publication date: 10 Jan 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0016.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-4044
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