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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-8797: Vulnerability in rdesktop

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-8797: Vulnerability in rdesktop

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/05/2019
Created
10/17/2019
Added
10/16/2019
Modified
02/17/2022

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(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-desktop-remote-desktop-rdesktop-1-8-4-11-4-14-0-1-1-0

References

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