CVE-2018-8794
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 6.7%
exploitation probability
6.7%top 7% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Integer Overflow that leads to an Out-Of-Bounds Write in function process_bitmap_updates() and results in a memory corruption and possibly even a remote code execution.
Affected products
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. · rdesktopReferences
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00040.htmlhttps://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/commit/4dca546d04321a610c1835010b5dad85163b65e1https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00030.htmlhttps://research.checkpoint.com/reverse-rdp-attack-code-execution-on-rdp-clients/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-06https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4394http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106938