RHBA-2009:1417 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An enhanced rdesktop package that fixes a bug and adds enhancements is now
available.

Description

The rdesktop application is a client for Microsoft Windows NT Terminal
Server, Windows 2000 Terminal Services, Windows 2003 Terminal
Services/Remote Desktop, Windows XP Remote Desktop, and possibly other
Terminal Services products. Currently, the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
version 4 and 5 protocols are implemented in rdesktop.

This update upgrades rdesktop to upstream version 1.6.0, which contains a
number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.

Notably, this updated rdesktop package adds the following enhancements:

• smart card-enabled login is now supported. (BZ#253307)
• support for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections has been improved.

(BZ#253307)

• support for connecting to Windows Vista hosts has been added. (BZ#459140,

BZ#337231)

Also notably, the following bug has been fixed:

• when using rdesktop to connect to a Windows 2003 Terminal Server, rapid

scrolling by the user in the Word or Excel applications caused the screen
to refresh incorrectly. Minimizing and then restoring the affected
application returned the screen to a correctly-refreshed state. This has
been fixed with this updated package so that rapid scrolling does not cause
screen refresh issues. (BZ#252023, BZ#218684)

Users of rdesktop are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
adds these enhancements and fixes this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 218684 - rdesktop not redrawing/painting properly
• BZ - 337231 - rdesktop 1.4.1 is incompatible with Vista, needs to be 1.5.0
• BZ - 459140 - [RFE] update rdesktop from 1.4.1 to 1.6, for Vista and Server 2008 support
• BZ - 500620 - rdesktop-debuginfo is empty

CVEs

(none)

References

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