Advisories » MGASA-2019-0209

Updated rdesktop packages fix security issues

Publication date: 21 Jul 2019
Modification date: 21 Jul 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6

Description

This is a security release to address various buffer overflow and overrun
issues in the rdesktop protocol handling identified by Kaspersky Lab and
National Cyber Security Centre.

rdesktop will now detect any attempts to access invalid areas and refuse
to continue.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24797
• https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/releases/tag/v1.8.5

SRPMS

6/core

• rdesktop-1.8.5-1.mga6