Re: [Thinstation-developer] [Fwd: [Fwd: Xorg VNC Bug (was Xorg VNC Is Insecure)]]

[Alan H. <al...@fa...>]

O.k. 

The backtrace is bad, but I've managed to reproduce the crash and I've
committed the fix to the CVS.

Alan.

On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 21:23 -0500, Jeremy Parrish wrote:
> Sorry I couldn't get to this earlier. Here is the backtrace:
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0xb7d344ba in rfbVncAuthProcessResponse ()
>    from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/modules/extensions/vnc.a
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xb7d344ba in rfbVncAuthProcessResponse ()
>    from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/modules/extensions/vnc.a
> #1  0x080e62e7 in TimerSet ()
> #2  0x080e6a6a in WaitForSomething ()
> #3  0x080c7f05 in Dispatch ()
> #4  0x080d4a19 in main ()
> 
> -Jeremy
> 
> On 7/25/06, Miles Roper <mr...@xt...> wrote:
> > you may have already got this.  I'll ask if someone else can do backtrace.
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [Fwd: [Thinstation-developer] Xorg VNC Bug (was Xorg VNC Is Insecure)]
> > Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:42:57 +1200
> > From: Miles Roper <mr...@xt...>
> > To: 'xf4...@li...' <xf4...@li...>
> >
> > passing on log info.
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [Thinstation-developer] Xorg VNC Bug (was Xorg VNC Is Insecure)
> > Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:48:38 -0500
> > From: Jeremy Parrish <p.e...@gm...>
> > To: thi...@li...
> >
> > Here is the relevant part of Xorg.0.log. Note that I was attempting to
> > login via the web vnc client (port 5800) when I did this, but it also
> > behaves similarly when connecting via a "real" vnc client (port 5900).
> >
> > Has anyone confirmed this? I hope it's just me, but I fear it's not.
> >
> > -Jeremy
> >
> > On 7/18/06, Jeremy Parrish <p.e...@gm...> wrote:
> > > Speaking of VNC in ThinStation, I've just come across a seemingly major bug...
> > >
> > > If you type the wrong VNC password 5 times when trying to access a
> > > client, it will kill the client's X session. That is a Bad Thing.
> > >
> > > Can someone else verify this in rc4?
> > >
> > > -Jeremy
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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