CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-109832

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.41%

34th percentile - higher than 34% of all known CVEs

Summary

A flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In the VNC TLS I/O handlers, retryable GnuTLS results (GNUTLS_E_AGAIN and GNUTLS_E_INTERRUPTED) are handled with an unbounded busy loop instead of yielding to the event loop. A remote attacker who can reach an enabled VNC TLS listener can cause the event-loop thread to spin at high CPU with no forward progress, resulting in denial of service.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exhaust CPU resources and block the remote desktop service, preventing users from working. The risk applies to systems with an enabled VNC TLS listener.

Recommendation

Apply available gnome-remote-desktop updates from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If possible, restrict network access to the VNC TLS listener to trusted addresses.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was found in gnome-remote-desktop as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In the VNC TLS I/O handlers, retryable GnuTLS results (GNUTLS_E_AGAIN and GNUTLS_E_INTERRUPTED) are handled with an unbounded busy loop instead of yielding to the event loop. A remote attacker who can reach an enabled VNC TLS listener can cause the event-loop thread to spin at high CPU with no forward progress, resulting in denial of service.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS