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Debian DSA-1896-1 : opensaml, shibboleth-sp - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 44761

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Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the opensaml and shibboleth-sp packages, as used by Shibboleth 1.x :

 - Chris Ries discovered that decoding a crafted URL leads to a crash (and potentially, arbitrary code execution).
 - Ian Young discovered that embedded NUL characters in certificate names were not correctly handled, exposing configurations using PKIX trust validation to impersonation attacks.

 - Incorrect processing of SAML metadata ignored key usage constraints.

Solution

Upgrade the Shibboleth 1.x packages.

For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3f.dfsg1-2+etch1 of the shibboleth-sp packages, and version 1.1a-2+etch1 of the opensaml packages.


For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.1.dfsg1-3+lenny1 of the shibboleth-sp packages, and version 1.1.1-2+lenny1 of the opensaml packages.

This update requires restarting the affected services (mainly Apache) to become effective.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1896

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 44761

File Name: debian_DSA-1896.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:shibboleth-sp, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:opensaml

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/28/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3474, CVE-2009-3475

BID: 36514, 36516

CWE: 310

DSA: 1896