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Fedora 21 xrdp Update Alert: Important Denial of Service Threats

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Calendar Grey July 30, 2015
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Fedora 21 xrdp security enhancements address vulnerabilities aimed at DoS attacks, implementing robust solutions effectively secured.
Attempt to fix this DoS.

Summary

The goal of this project is to provide a fully functional Linux terminal

server, capable of accepting connections from rdesktop and Microsoft's own

terminal server / remote desktop clients.

Update Information:

Attempt to fix this DoS.

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

* Fri Jul 17 2015 Bojan Smojver - 1:0.6.1-11 - attempt to fix bug #1194213 * Thu Jun 4 2015 Bojan Smojver - 1:0.6.1-10 - remove -ac from X server calls: bug #1105202 - put other sesman.ini changes into a patch * Fri May 15 2015 Bojan Smojver - 1:0.6.1-9 - hopefully better service dependencies * Thu Apr 23 2015 Dan Horák - 1:0.6.1-8 - fix upgrade path after the 0.8 bump in 2014-09 by adding Epoch * Mon Dec 22 2014 Bojan Smojver - 0.6.1-7 - add a delay loop when connecting to VNC back end * Mon Dec 8 2014 Bojan Smojver - 0.6.1-6 - use systemd rpm macros: bug #850374

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1194213 - xrdp: denial of service when validating user accounts against plain passwd files/via shadow-utils https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194213

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update xrdp' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: xrdp
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 0.6.1
Release: 11.fc21
URL: http://www.xrdp.org
Summary: Open source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server

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Topics Covered

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