Advisories » MGASA-2023-0276

Updated xrdp packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 30 Sep 2023
Modification date: 30 Sep 2023
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8 , 9
CVE: CVE-2023-40184

Description

In versions prior to 0.9.23 improper handling of session establishment
errors allows bypassing OS-level session restrictions. The
`auth_start_session` function can return non-zero (1) value on, e.g.,
PAM error which may result in in session restrictions such as max
concurrent sessions per user by PAM (ex ./etc/security/limits.conf) to
be bypassed. (CVE-2023-40184)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32276
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-40184
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SOT237TIHTHPX5YNIWLVNINOEYC7WMG2/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-40184

SRPMS

8/core

• xrdp-0.9.23-1.mga8

9/core

• xrdp-0.9.23-1.mga9