Issued:
2013-09-30
Updated:
2013-09-30

RHBA-2013:1367 - rdesktop bug fix update


Synopsis

rdesktop bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated rdesktop packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The rdesktop packages provide a client for the Remote Desktop Server in Microsoft Windows. The rdesktop client uses the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to remotely present a user's desktop.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Prior to this update, the rdesktop client did not handle Windows Server 2008 licenses correctly. As a consequence, rdesktop was not able to connect to Terminal Services on the second connection with the following error message:

"disconnect: Internal licensing error"

This update modifies the underlying code to handle the Windows Server 2008 licenses properly, and rdesktop now connects to Terminal Services as expected. (BZ#642554)

Users of rdesktop are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • rdesktop-debuginfo-1.6.0-8.ia64.rpm
  • rdesktop-1.6.0-8.ia64.rpm
  • rdesktop-1.6.0-8.ppc.rpm
  • rdesktop-debuginfo-1.6.0-8.i386.rpm
  • rdesktop-debuginfo-1.6.0-8.ppc.rpm
  • rdesktop-debuginfo-1.6.0-8.x86_64.rpm
  • rdesktop-debuginfo-1.6.0-8.s390x.rpm
  • rdesktop-1.6.0-8.s390x.rpm
  • rdesktop-1.6.0-8.i386.rpm
  • rdesktop-1.6.0-8.src.rpm
  • rdesktop-1.6.0-8.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)


Additional information