<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201210-03"> <title>rdesktop: Directory Traversal</title> <synopsis>A vulnerability which allows a remote attacking server to read or overwrite arbitrary files has been found in rdesktop. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">rdesktop</product> <announced>2012-10-18</announced> <revised count="1">2012-10-18</revised> <bug>364191</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-misc/rdesktop" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.7.0</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.0</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>rdesktop is a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Client.</p> </background> <description> <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in rdesktop. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>Remote RDP servers may be able to read or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All rdesktop users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/rdesktop-1.7.0" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1595">CVE-2011-1595</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2011-10-07T23:37:09Z"> underling </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2012-10-18T20:47:56Z">craig</metadata> </glsa>