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Medium · 4.6 CVE-2023-42822 EUVD-2023-47243

Unchecked access to font glyph info in xrdp

Published Sep 27, 2023 · Updated Nov 3, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
neutrinolabs xrdp < 0.9.23.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 xrdp 0.9.24-2 —
Debian 13 xrdp 0.9.24-2 —
Debian 12 xrdp 0.9.21.1-1+deb12u1 —
Debian 11 xrdp 0.9.21.1-1~deb11u2 DLA-4166-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 xrdp 0.10.1-3.1+deb13u1build0.25.10.1 USN-8476-1
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS xrdp 0.9.24-4ubuntu0.1~esm1 USN-8476-1
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS xrdp 0.9.17-2ubuntu2+esm1 USN-8476-1, USN-6474-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS xrdp 0.9.12-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 USN-8476-1, USN-6474-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS xrdp 0.9.5-2ubuntu0.1~esm2 USN-8476-1, USN-6474-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS xrdp 0.6.1-2ubuntu0.3+esm3 USN-6474-1
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS xrdp 0.6.0-1ubuntu0.1+esm3 USN-6474-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 xrdp 0.9.13.1-150200.4.27.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4577-1
SLES 15 SP4 xrdp 0.9.13.1-150200.4.27.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4577-1
SLES 12 SP5 xrdp 0.9.10-3.16.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4873-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 12 SP5 xrdp 0.9.10-3.16.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4873-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed xrdp 0.9.23.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13399-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 xrdp 0.9.13.1-150200.4.27.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4577-1
openSUSE Leap 15.4 xrdp 0.9.13.1-150200.4.27.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4577-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 xrdp 0.9.23.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 xrdp 0.9.23.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 xrdp 0.9.23.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 xrdp 0.9.23.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.20 xrdp 0.9.23.1-r0 —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.19 xrdp 0.9.23.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.18 xrdp 0.9.23.1-r0 —

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