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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1297-1 freexl -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

01 Mar 2018

Affected Packages:

freexl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-7435, CVE-2018-7436, CVE-2018-7437, CVE-2018-7438, CVE-2018-7439.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in SimpleSAMLphp, a framework for authentication, primarily via the SAML protocol.

• CVE-2016-9814 / CVE-2016-9955

  An incorrect check of return values in the signature validation utilities allowed an attacker to get invalid signatures accepted as valid in the rare case of an error occurring during validation.

• SSPSA-201802-01 (no CVE yet)

  Critical signature validation vulnerability.

In addition this update adds a patch to solve excessive resource consumption in case of SimpleSAMLphp processing a large metadata file.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.9.2-1+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your simplesamlphp packages.

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