Debian DSA-1947-1 : shibboleth-sp, shibboleth-sp2, opensaml2 - missing input sanitising

low Nessus Plugin ID 44812

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Synopsis

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

Description

Matt Elder discovered that Shibboleth, a federated web single sign-on system is vulnerable to script injection through redirection URLs.
More details can be found in the Shibboleth advisory at http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/secadv/secadv_20091104.txt.

Solution

Upgrade the Shibboleth packages.

For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3f.dfsg1-2+etch2 of shibboleth-sp.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.1.dfsg1-3+lenny2 of shibboleth-sp, version 2.0.dfsg1-4+lenny2 of shibboleth-sp2 and version 2.0-2+lenny2 of opensaml2.

See Also

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1947

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 44812

File Name: debian_DSA-1947.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:opensaml2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:shibboleth-sp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:shibboleth-sp2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3300

CWE: 79

DSA: 1947