Bug 1670408 (CVE-2018-8796) - CVE-2018-8796 rdesktop: Denial of Service in process_bitmap_data
Summary: CVE-2018-8796 rdesktop: Denial of Service in process_bitmap_data
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2018-8796
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1670427
Blocks: 1667054
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-01-29 13:46 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2019-09-29 15:06 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: rdesktop 1.8.4
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Last Closed: 2019-02-19 04:03:25 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-01-29 13:46:34 UTC 
A flaw was found in rdesktop before 1.8.4. A issue in process_bitmap_data function may lead to denial of service.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/commit/766ebcf6f23ccfe8323ac10242ae6e127d4505d2
https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/releases/tag/v1.8.4
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-01-29 14:03:48 UTC 
Created rdesktop tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1670427]
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2019-02-19 04:03:25 UTC 
Note:

You need to connect to a malicious or a MITM RDP server in order to trigger this flaw. The malicious RDP server can cause the client to crash.
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