Debian DLA-290-2 : opensaml2 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85280

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that opensaml2, a Security Assertion Markup Language library, needed to be rebuilt against a fixed version of the xmltooling package due to its use of macros vulnerable to CVE-2015-0851 as fixed in the DSA 3321-1 update.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/08/msg00004.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85280

File Name: debian_DLA-290.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/10/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsaml2-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsaml2-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsaml6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:opensaml2-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:opensaml2-schemas

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0851