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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2019-baff775841 Moderate: rdesktop Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 6, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The upgrade to rdesktop version 1.8.6 resolves multiple bugs and security vulnerabilities present in Fedora 30, specifically targeting buffer overflow issues.
Update to 1.8.6 release which fixes a bug in 1.8.5

Summary

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and

Windows 2000 & 2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT

desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.

Update to 1.8.6 release which fixes a bug in 1.8.5. 1.8.5 is a security

release to address various buffer overflow and overrun issues in the rdesktop

protocol handling.

* Fri Aug 16 2019 Charles R. Anderson - 1.8.6-1

- Update to 1.8.6 release which fixes a bug in 1.8.5.

- 1.8.5 is a security release to address various buffer overflow

and overrun issues in the rdesktop protocol handling.

* Fri Jul 26 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.8.4-4

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-baff775841' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 30
Version: 1.8.6
Release: 1.fc30
Summary: X client for remote desktop into Windows Terminal Server

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