| Name | CVE-2025-5024 |
| Description | A flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop. Once gnome-remote-desktop listens for RDP connections, an unauthenticated attacker can exhaust system resources and repeatedly crash the process. There may be a resource leak after many attacks, which will also result in gnome-remote-desktop no longer being able to open files even after it is restarted via systemd. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1106527 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnome-remote-desktop (PTS) | bookworm | 43.3-1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 48.1-4 | vulnerable | |
| forky | 50.2-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 51.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gnome-remote-desktop | source | (unstable) | 50.1-4 | 1106527 |
[trixie] - gnome-remote-desktop <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - gnome-remote-desktop <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - gnome-remote-desktop <postponed> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2367717
Fixed by: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/merge_requests/321 (50.beta)
When fixing this issue for older releases make the fix complete to not open
up CVE-2026-96541.