Debian DSA-1895-1 : xmltooling - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 44760

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Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the xmltooling packages, as used by Shibboleth :

- Chris Ries discovered that decoding a crafted URL leads to a crash (and potentially, arbitrary code execution).
- Ian Young discovered that embedded NUL characters in certificate names were not correctly handled, exposing configurations using PKIX trust validation to impersonation attacks.

- Incorrect processing of SAML metadata ignores key usage constraints. This minor issue also needs a correction in the opensaml2 packages, which will be provided in an upcoming stable point release (and, before that, via stable-proposed-updates).

Solution

Upgrade the xmltooling packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0-2+lenny1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1895

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 44760

File Name: debian_DSA-1895.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: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xmltooling, 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: 9/24/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3474, CVE-2009-3475

BID: 36514, 36516

CWE: 310

DSA: 1895