Allele Security Alert
ASA-2019-00047
Identifier(s)
ASA-2019-00047, CVE-2018-8791
Title
Out-of-bounds read in function rdpdr_process()
Vendor(s)
rdesktop team
Product(s)
rdesktop
Affected version(s)
rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3
Fixed version(s)
rdesktop v1.8.4
Proof of concept
Unknown
Description
rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an out-of-bounds read in function rdpdr_process() that results in an information leak.
Technical details
Unknown
Credits
Eyal Itkin (Checkpoint Research)
Reference(s)
Reverse RDP Attack: Code Execution on RDP Clients
https://research.checkpoint.com/reverse-rdp-attack-code-execution-on-rdp-clients/
Updated ChangeLog and bumped version to 1.8.4
https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/commit/34b8a18fe5d4de795851defe34b3ad3e1f43532b
CVE-2018-8791
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8791
CVE-2018-8791
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8791
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Last modified: October 10, 2019