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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS USN-646-1 Critical: Rdesktop Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2008
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Critical Ubuntu notice USN-760-2: vulnerabilities in rdesktop potentially causing denial of service and unauthorized code execution.
It was discovered that rdesktop did not properly validate the length of packet headers when processing RDP requests

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security advisory denial of service critical issue buffer overflow Ubuntu rdesktop RDP

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-646-1 September 18, 2008

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security advisory denial of service critical issue buffer overflow Ubuntu rdesktop RDP

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