Bug 238012 - Possible NULL pointrer dereference with updated X.Org
Summary: Possible NULL pointrer dereference with updated X.Org
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rdesktop   
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Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Zeuthen
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Reported: 2007-04-26 15:04 UTC by Lubomir Kundrak
Modified: 2013-03-06 03:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-11-20 21:40:16 UTC
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-04-26 15:04:09 UTC 
Description a problem:

The recent update of libx11 package reportedly broke some packages
incorrectly using XCreateImage(), whose behavior was slightly changed
to return NULL in case it was passwd wrong parameters. This could lead
to a NULL pointer dereference crash in programs that did not check
the return value properly. Rdesktop is reportedly one of those.

http://rdesktop.cvs.sourceforge.net/rdesktop/rdesktop/xwin.c?view=log
Comment 2 RHEL Product and Program Management 2007-04-26 15:17:28 UTC 
Since Keyword Regression exists, this is a blocker,
not an exception.  Cleared exception flag.
Set blocker flag."
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