Scientific Linux: 2008-07-24 Moderate Rdesktop Update for RDP Issues

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:03:14 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for rdesktop on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: rdesktop security update
Issue date:	2008-07-24
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1801 CVE-2008-1803

An integer underflow and integer signedness issue were 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, CVE-2008-1803)

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
rdesktop-1.4.1-6.src.rpm
 i386:
rdesktop-1.4.1-6.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
rdesktop-1.4.1-6.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson