Full Disclosure: Re: [Full Disclosure] Unauthorized Digital Certificates Could Allow Spoofing

[Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>]

Thank you all for the information :)

On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 03:06:41PM +0100, imipak wrote:
> > what does this mean?
> >
> > m$ inadvertently gave signing rights to lusers, they got rooted or
> something else?
> >
> http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/06/03/microsoft-certification-authority-signing-certificates-added-to-the-untrusted-certificate-store.aspx
>
> says:
>
>  "[..] certificates issued by our Terminal Services licensing certification
> authority, which are intended to only be used for license server
> verification, could also be used to sign code as Microsoft. Specifically,
> when an enterprise customer requests a Terminal Services activation
> license, the certificate issued by Microsoft in response to the request
> allows code signing without accessing Microsoft’s internal PKI
> infrastructure."
>
>
> -i
>
> -- 
>   wake up the past
>     and tell it to stay away
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