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<?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 "&gt;=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>