Explore top 10 tips to secure your open-source projects now. Read More

×
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 496
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 496

Scientific Linux 3.x: CVE-2008-1801 Moderate Rdesktop Security Advisory

Calendar Jul 28, 2008 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
1 min read
Scientific Large Esm H446
Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate malicious access integer underflow rdesktop crash risk SL3
Moderate: rdesktop security update 
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:01:30 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for rdesktop on SL3.x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: "This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it."
 

Synopsis:	Moderate: rdesktop security update
Issue date:	2008-07-24
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1801

An integer underflow vulnerability was discovered in the rdesktop. If an
attacker could convince a victim to connect to a malicious RDP server, the
attacker could cause the victim's rdesktop to crash or, possibly, execute
an arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-1801)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
rdesktop-1.2.0-3.src.rpm
 i386:
rdesktop-1.2.0-3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
rdesktop-1.2.0-3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson