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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-7688
2011-05-30 21:45:59
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Name : rdesktop
Product : Fedora 15
Version : 1.6.0
Release : 12.fc15
URL :
http://www.rdesktop.org/
Summary : X client for remote desktop into Windows Terminal Server
Description :
rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and
Windows 2000 & 2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT
desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.
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Update Information:
This update fixes a security issue in rdesktop 1.6.0.
A directory traversal flaw was found in the way rdesktop shared a local path with a remote server. If a user connects to a malicious server with rdesktop, the server could use this flaw to cause rdesktop to read and write to arbitrary, local files accessible to the user running rdesktop. (CVE-2011-1595)
Fedora would like to thank Cendio AB for reporting this issue. Cendio AB acknowledges an anonymous contributor working with the SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program as the original reporter.
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ChangeLog:
* Mon May 30 2011 Kalev Lember <kalev@smartlink.ee> - 1.6.0-12
- Prevent remote file access (CVE-2011-1595)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #676252 - CVE-2011-1595 rdesktop remote file access
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676252
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update rdesktop' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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