Sudden trouble with net/rdesktop

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On 12.11.2020 19:12, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> Andrea Venturoli wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> After many year of happy usage, since yesterday rdesktop dumps core 
>> (12.2/amd64).
>>
>>> % rdesktop xxxxxx
>>> Assertion failed: ((len * 2) < size), function _utils_data_to_hex, 
>>> file utils.c, line 499.
>>> Abort (core dumped)
>>
>> This is systematic with 4 servers out of 5; the 5th still works 
>> perfectly, but I have no idea in which way it might differ from the 
>> others.
>>
>> I don't think this has anything to do with the upgrade to 1.9.0, 
>> since I was able to use 1.9.0 for a while.
>>
>> Anyone else seeing this?
>> Where do I go and look?
>
> I see a similar report on github:
>
> https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/issues/380
>
> Could it be something that changed on remote side, e.g. any recent 
> updates?
>
> As a workaround, try increasing the buf size to e.g. 512 in 
> utils.c:_utils_cert_get_info().
>
I have the same problem, however I'm sure that nothing has changed on 
remote side (Windows Update is completely disabled). I updated my 
FreeBSD workstation though to 12.2 and all ports.