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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-8795 json

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Integer Overflow that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function process_bit…

published 2019-02-05 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-20404

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.4%
EPSS 7.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • rdesktop Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.8.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-8795

  • rdesktop openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.9.0-4.6
  • rdesktop Package Hub 15 SP1, openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.8.6-bp151.2.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11298-1openSUSE-SU-2019:2135-1

  • rdesktop Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +12 more 1.8.6-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-8795

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • rdesktop Arch Linux 1.8.4-1

arch linux advisories AVG-871

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-8795 updated cvss 7.5

rdesktop: Remote code execution in process_bitmap_data

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 rdesktop Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 rdesktop
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

7.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. rdesktop

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-680 Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.