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Mageia: 2019-0209 Moderate: rdesktop Buffer Overflow and Overrun Issues

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The update MGASA-2021-0412 from Mageia tackles critical vulnerabilities in gedit, improving protection against unauthorized data manipulations.
This is a security release to address various buffer overflow and overrun issues in the rdesktop protocol handling identified by Kaspersky Lab and National Cyber Security Centre

Summary

This is a security release to address various buffer overflow and overrun issues in the rdesktop protocol handling identified by Kaspersky Lab and National Cyber Security Centre. rdesktop will now detect any attempts to access invalid areas and refuse

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24797

- https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/releases/tag/v1.8.5

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update security issue buffer overflow protocol handling rdesktop Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/rdesktop-1.8.5-1.mga6

Publication date: 21 Jul 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0209.html
Type: security

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update security issue buffer overflow protocol handling rdesktop Mageia

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