Detections
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CVE-2018-8797
critical
Description
rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function process_plane() that results in a memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4394
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-06
https://research.checkpoint.com/reverse-rdp-attack-code-execution-on-rdp-clients/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00030.html
https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/commit/4dca546d04321a610c1835010b5dad85163b65e1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106938
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00040.html