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| <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> |
| <glsa id="201210-03"> |
| <title>rdesktop: Directory Traversal</title> |
| <synopsis>A vulnerability which allows a remote attacking server to read or |
| overwrite arbitrary files has been found in rdesktop. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">rdesktop</product> |
| <announced>October 18, 2012</announced> |
| <revised>October 18, 2012: 1</revised> |
| <bug>364191</bug> |
| <access>remote</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="net-misc/rdesktop" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">1.7.0</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.0</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p>rdesktop is a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Client.</p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in rdesktop. Please review the CVE |
| identifier referenced below for details. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="normal"> |
| <p>Remote RDP servers may be able to read or overwrite arbitrary files via |
| a .. (dot dot) in a pathname. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p>All rdesktop users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> |
| |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.0" |
| </code> |
| |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1595">CVE-2011-1595</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:37:09 +0000"> |
| underling |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:47:56 +0000">craig</metadata> |
| </glsa> |