CVE-2018-8791: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. rdesktop

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. rdesktop: rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Out-Of-Bounds Read in function…

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.038 · 90th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: checkpoint) at 5 Feb 2019, 20:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.	rdesktop	affected All versions up to and including v1.8.3

Identifiers

CVE-2018-8791

CNA

checkpoint

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-126

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.038, the 90th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 5 Feb 2019. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.securityfocus.com/bid/106938 vdb-entrybid
github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/commit/4dca546d04321a610c1835010b5dad85163b65e1
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-06 vendor-advisorygentoo
research.checkpoint.com/reverse-rdp-attack-code-execution-on-rdp-clients/ confirm
www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4394 vendor-advisorydebian
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00030.html mailing-listmlist
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00040.html vendor-advisorysuse

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