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Debian DSA-3207-1 : shibboleth-sp2 - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82304

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Synopsis

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

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was found in the Shibboleth (an federated identity framework) Service Provider. When processing certain malformed SAML message generated by an authenticated attacker, the daemon could crash.

Solution

Upgrade the shibboleth-sp2 packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.3+dfsg-5+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.3+dfsg-2.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/shibboleth-sp2

https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3207

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82304

File Name: debian_DSA-3207.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:shibboleth-sp2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2684

BID: 73314

DSA: 3207