RHSA-2026:98622MediumCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: gnome-remote-desktop security update

Published
November 11, 2026
Last Modified
November 11, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-96541 →

📋 Description

CVE-2026-96541 — gnome-remote-desktop: gnome-remote-desktop: unauthenticated RDP sockets lack a handshake deadline

🎯 Affected products14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • gnome-remote-desktop-0:49.3-18.el10_3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • gnome-remote-desktop-0:49.3-18.el10_3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • gnome-remote-desktop-0:49.3-18.el10_3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • gnome-remote-desktop-0:49.3-18.el10_3.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • gnome-remote-desktop-0:49.3-18.el10_3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • gnome-remote-desktop-debuginfo-0:49.3-18.el10_3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • gnome-remote-desktop-debuginfo-0:49.3-18.el10_3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • gnome-remote-desktop-debuginfo-0:49.3-18.el10_3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • gnome-remote-desktop-debuginfo-0:49.3-18.el10_3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • gnome-remote-desktop-debugsource-0:49.3-18.el10_3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • gnome-remote-desktop-debugsource-0:49.3-18.el10_3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • gnome-remote-desktop-debugsource-0:49.3-18.el10_3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • gnome-remote-desktop-debugsource-0:49.3-18.el10_3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Disable the RDP listener when it is not required, or restrict access to the RDP port to trusted networks or hosts at the network boundary. No application-level mitigation that preserves unrestricted RDP access is known.

🔗 References (4)