Debian DSA-4126-1 : xmltooling - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 107026

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Kelby Ludwig and Scott Cantor discovered that the Shibboleth service provider is vulnerable to impersonation attacks and information disclosure due to incorrect XML parsing. For additional details please refer to the upstream advisory at https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20180227.txt

Solution

Upgrade the xmltooling packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.3-2+deb8u3.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.0-4+deb9u1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4126

https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20180227.txt

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/xmltooling

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/xmltooling

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/xmltooling

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 107026

File Name: debian_DSA-4126.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/28/2018

Updated: 11/13/2018

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xmltooling, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0489

DSA: 4126

IAVB: 2018-B-0038