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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-1595: rdesktop: Directory Traversal

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-1595: rdesktop: Directory Traversal

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/24/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the disk_create function in disk.c in rdesktop before 1.7.0, when disk redirection is enabled, allows remote RDP servers to read or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-rdesktop

References

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