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Debian DSA-2284-1 : opensaml2 - implementation error

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55674

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Synopsis

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

Description

Juraj Somorovsky, Andreas Mayer, Meiko Jensen, Florian Kohlar, Marco Kampmann and Joerg Schwenk discovered that Shibboleth, a federated web single sign-on system is vulnerable to XML signature wrapping attacks.
More details can be found in the Shibboleth advisory.

Solution

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-2+lenny3.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3-2+squeeze1.

See Also

https://www.internet2.edu/products-services/trust-identity/shibboleth/

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/opensaml2

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2284

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55674

File Name: debian_DSA-2284.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/26/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:opensaml2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1411

DSA: 2284