CVE-2011-1595

N/A Unknown

Published: May 24, 2011 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the disk_create function in disk.c in rdesktop before 1.7.0, when disk redirection is enabled, allows remote RDP servers to read or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061170.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061309.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061316.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://rdesktop.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rdesktop?view=revision&revision=1626

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Patch

http://secunia.com/advisories/44881

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/51023

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201210-03.xml

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://securitytracker.com/id?1025525

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27376554

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdesktop/files/rdesktop/1.7.0/rdesktop-1.7.0.tar.gz/download

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Patch

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:102

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47419

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1136-1

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676252

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Exploit Patch

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0506.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061170.html