Re: [Xrdp-devel] CVE-2005-1794

2014-08-25 Thread Harry Johnston
obably go ahead. Harry. On 23 August 2014 18:19, speidy wrote: > Hi Harry, > > TLS is supported by all well-known clients today (freerdp, rdesktop, > mstsc, itap). > > It is referres as 'RDP Enhanced Security' mode at ms docs. > > Idan. > On Aug 23, 2014

Re: [Xrdp-devel] CVE-2005-1794

2014-08-22 Thread Harry Johnston
Jay, Thanks. Yes, that was my understanding; the vulnerability is in the protocol, so it affects all Microsoft-compatible RDP (5.2 or earlier) software. I think it is clear that this is not widely understood, though, and this is what concerns me at present. We're moving to TLS encryption in xrd

Re: [Xrdp-devel] CVE-2005-1794

2014-08-22 Thread Harry Johnston
On 19 August 2014 16:51, speidy wrote: > Hi Harry, > > We have an rsa key generator tool to produce a new rsa key for xrdp server > usage. > That's xdrp-keygen, right? Looking at the code, the key generated by this tool is signed by the well-known private key, in exactly the same way as describ

Re: [Xrdp-devel] CVE-2005-1794

2014-08-22 Thread Harry Johnston
On 19 August 2014 09:09, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: What on earth makes you think that xrdp would have the same hard coded > RSA key in it that a Microsoft terminal server binary had in it nine > years ago. What makes you think it has any hard coded RSA keys? > That would be because when I looked i

[Xrdp-devel] CVE-2005-1794

2014-08-18 Thread Harry Johnston
Hi, I'm concerned that a number of web sites wrongly claim or imply that the vulnerability described in CVE-2005-1794 doesn't apply to xrdp, e.g., see http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2005/CVE-2005-1794.html and https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-1794 (As a r