CVE-2018-20175 (GCVE-0-2018-20175)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-15 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:51
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contains several Integer Signedness errors that lead to Out-Of-Bounds Reads in the file mcs.c and result in a Denial of Service (segfault).
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106938 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/commit/4dca5… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-06 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| https://research.checkpoint.com/reverse-rdp-attac… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4394 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
Date Public
2019-01-16 00:00
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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