Fedora 30 : rdesktop (2019-baff775841)

high Nessus Plugin ID 128578

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 1.8.6 release which fixes a bug in 1.8.5. 1.8.5 is a security release to address various buffer overflow and overrun issues in the rdesktop protocol handling.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected rdesktop package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-baff775841

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 128578

File Name: fedora_2019-baff775841.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/9/2019

Updated: 9/23/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rdesktop, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 9/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2019

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