High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 23, 2026· Updated Sep 23, 2026
CVE-2026-96541
CVE-2026-96541
Description
A denial-of-service flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop. An unauthenticated remote attacker can open RDP connections without completing the handshake and retain the connection-throttling slots indefinitely because no pre-authentication handshake deadline is enforced. By exhausting the global connection limit, an attacker can prevent new RDP clients from connecting until a holding socket is closed.
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