30 October 2019
KLCERT-19-032: Denial of Service in RDesktop before 1.8.4
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CVE-IDS
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KLCERT
KLCERT-19-032
Description
RDesktop version 1.8.4 contains multiple out-of-bound access read vulnerabilities in its code, which results in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. These issues have been fixed in version 1.8.5.
CVSS v3
Exploitability
Remotely
Attack complexity
Low
User interaction
None
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause Denial of Service.
Existence of exploit
Unknown
Affected products
RDesktop before 1.8.4
Mitigation
Vendor mitigation
Upgrade to a newer version: 1.8.5
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