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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-55238 EUVD-2026-46036

xrdp: Malformed Confirm Active capability sets cause out-of-bounds reads

Published Jul 20, 2026 · Updated Jul 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

xrdp is an open source RDP server. Versions 0.10.6 and prior contain a vulnerability concerning the processing of RDP Confirm Active PDU, where during the capability negotiation phase, the parser did not perform sufficient length validation for specific capability sets. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted RDP packet containing malformed capability data. Due to missing bounds checks, the xrdp process may perform out-of-bounds memory reads, which can result in the termination of the service (Denial of Service). However, since xrdp forks a new process for each connection by default, an out-of-bounds read causing a process crash is unlikely to bring down the entire xrdp service. This issue has been fixed in version 0.10.6.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
neutrinolabs xrdp < 0.10.6.1 —

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 0.10.6.1-2 —
Debian 13 xrdp 0.10.1-3.1+deb13u2 —
Debian 12 xrdp 0.9.21.1-1+deb12u3 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 xrdp No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS xrdp No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 xrdp No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS xrdp No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS xrdp No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS xrdp No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS xrdp No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS xrdp No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS xrdp No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed xrdp 0.10.6.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11543-1

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