CVE-2011-1595

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    CVE-2011-1595

    Published: 24 May 2011Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/44881, http://secunia.com/advisories/51023, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201210-03.xml, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:102, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1136-1, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0506.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676252, http://rdesktop.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rdesktop?view=revision&revision=1626, http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdesktop/files/rdesktop/1.7.0/rdesktop-1.7.0.tar.gz/download, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676252, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061170.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061309.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061316.html, http://securitytracker.com/id?1025525, http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27376554, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47419

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High