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Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Out-Of-Bounds Read in the function processdemandactive() that results in a Denial of Service (segfault).

First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow, Integer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Integer Overflow that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in the function rdpinunistr() and results in memory corruption and possibly even a remote code execution.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Integer Underflow, Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Integer Underflow that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in the function lspciprocess() and results in memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow, Integer Underflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Integer Underflow that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in the function rdpsnddbgprocess() and results in memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow, Integer Underflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Integer Underflow that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in the function seamlessprocess() and results in memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contains several Integer Signedness errors that lead to Out-Of-Bounds Reads in the file mcs.c and result in a Denial of Service (segfault).

First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain a Buffer Overflow over the global variables in the function seamlessprocessline() that results in memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain several Out-Of- Bounds Reads in the file secure.c that result in a Denial of Service (segfault).

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Out-Of-Bounds Read in the function uicliphandledata() that results in an information leak.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function uicliphandledata() that results in a memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function processplane() that results in a memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow, Integer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Integer Overflow that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function processbitmapupdates() and results in a memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Out-Of-Bounds Read in function processbitmapupdates() that results in a Denial of Service (segfault).

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Out-Of-Bounds Read in function rdpsndprocessping() that results in an information leak.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Out-Of-Bounds Read in function processsecondaryorder() that results in a Denial of Service (segfault).

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Out-Of-Bounds Read in function rdpdrprocess() that results in an information leak.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function csspreadtsrequest() that results in a memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Out-Of-Bounds Read in function csspreadtsrequest() that results in a Denial of Service (segfault).

First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Integer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Integer Overflow that leads to an Out-Of-Bounds Write in function processbitmapupdates() and results in a memory corruption and possibly even a remote code execution.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Path Traversal
AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Directory traversal vulnerability in the diskcreate function in disk.c in rdesktop before 1.7.0, when disk redirection is enabled, allows remote RDP servers to read or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Integer signedness error in the xrealloc function (rdesktop.c) in RDesktop 1.5.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown parameters that trigger a heap-based overflow. NOTE: the role of the channelprocess function was not specified by the original researcher.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Integer underflow in the isorecvmsg function (iso.c) in rdesktop 1.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) request with a small length field.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.3
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in the processredirectpdu (rdp.c) function in rdesktop 1.5.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) redirect request with modified length fields.

First published (updated )

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