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

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Message-ID: <20120604173316.GB2603@sivokote.iziade.m$>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 20:33:16 +0300
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com>
To: imipak <imipak@...il.com>
Cc: Full Disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Full Disclosure] Unauthorized Digital
 Certificates Could Allow Spoofing

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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