Scientific Linux: CVE-2011-1595 Moderate: rdesktop Directory Traversal

Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 15:00:29 -0500
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From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: rdesktop on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: rdesktop security update
Issue date:	2011-05-11
CVE Names:	CVE-2011-1595

A directory traversal flaw was found in the way rdesktop shared a local
path with a remote server. If a user connects to a malicious server with
rdesktop, the server could use this flaw to cause rdesktop to read and
write to arbitrary, local files accessible to the user running rdesktop.
(CVE-2011-1595)

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
rdesktop-1.6.0-3.el5_6.2.src.rpm
 i386:
rdesktop-1.6.0-3.el5_6.2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
rdesktop-1.6.0-3.el5_6.2.x86_64.rpm

SL 6.x

 SRPMS:
rdesktop-1.6.0-8.el6_0.1.src.rpm
 i386:
rdesktop-1.6.0-8.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
 x86_64:
rdesktop-1.6.0-8.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team