U.S. flag   An official website of the United States government
Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

CVE-2018-8792 Detail

Description

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Out-Of-Bounds Read in function cssp_read_tsrequest() that results in a Denial of Service (segfault).


Metrics

NVD enrichment efforts reference publicly available information to associate vector strings. CVSS information contributed by other sources is also displayed.
CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.

Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00040.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106938 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/commit/4dca546d04321a610c1835010b5dad85163b65e1 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00030.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://research.checkpoint.com/reverse-rdp-attack-code-execution-on-rdp-clients/ Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-06 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4394 Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-126 Buffer Over-read Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

CPEs loading, please wait.

Denotes Vulnerable Software
Are we missing a CPE here? Please let us know.

Change History

12 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-8792
NVD Published Date:
02/05/2019
NVD Last Modified:
09/14/2019
Source:
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.