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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-8795

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CVE-2018-8795

rdesktop: Remote code execution in process_bitmap_data

Published Modified CWE 680, 190, 787
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Integer Overflow that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function process_bitmap_updates() and results in a memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.11rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.12rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.13rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.14rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.15rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.16rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.17rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.18rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.19rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.20rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.21rdesktop1.8.6-r0
Show all 25 entries from 25 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.11rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.12rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.13rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.14rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.15rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.16rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.17rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.18rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.19rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.20rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.21rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.22rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.23rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine 3.24rdesktop1.8.6-r0
alpine edgerdesktop1.8.6-r0
debian 11rdesktop1.8.4-1
debian 12rdesktop1.8.4-1
debian 13rdesktop1.8.4-1
debian 14rdesktop1.8.4-1
debian 8rdesktop1.8.4-0+deb8u1
debian 9rdesktop1.8.4-1~deb9u1
echordesktop1.8.4-1
Red Hatrdesktopno fix listed
ubuntu 18.04-ESMrdesktopno fix listed

References

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