Slackware 12.1: 2008-148-01 Moderate: Rdesktop Security Update
slackware
May 28, 2008
New rdesktop packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a security issue caused by using rdesktop to connect to a malicious or compromised RDP serve...
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/rdesktop-1.6.0-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to rdesktop-1.6.0. According to the rdesktop ChangeLog, this contains a: "* Fix for potential vulnerability against compromised/malicious servers (reported by iDefense)" For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1801 (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com?
Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site
for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading
directly from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 11.0:
Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
Updated package for Slackware 12.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 11.0 package:
e451e7af91e89791ef17d7254eafa16e rdesktop-1.6.0-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
Slackware 12.0 package:
d63a47606886d8d3f00ae67e8f8cde5f rdesktop-1.6.0-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 package:
cd4c708a373d84bd559b6bf9f637ff73 rdesktop-1.6.0-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware -current package:
ae267363051c7d0af749e4e95b69f862 rdesktop-1.6.0-i486-1.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg rdesktop-1.6.0-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
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