Debian DSA-4085-1 : xmltooling - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 105800

Synopsis

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

Description

Philip Huppert discovered the Shibboleth service provider is vulnerable to impersonation attacks and information disclosure due to mishandling of DTDs in the XMLTooling XML parsing library. For additional details please refer to the upstream advisory at https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20180112.txt

Solution

Upgrade the xmltooling packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.3-2+deb8u2.

The stable distribution (stretch) is not affected.

See Also

https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20180112.txt

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/xmltooling

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/xmltooling

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4085

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 105800

File Name: debian_DSA-4085.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 11/13/2018

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xmltooling, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0486

DSA: 4085