vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-8797: rdesktop: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 5, 2019
Added
Mar 11, 2019
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

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.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-rdesktop
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