Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1895-1 xmltooling -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 24 Sep 2009
- Affected Packages:
- xmltooling
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- No other external database security references currently available.
- More information:
-
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).
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0-2+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xmltooling packages.
- Fixed in:
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Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/xmltooling_1.0-2+lenny1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/xmltooling_1.0-2+lenny1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/xmltooling_1.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/xmltooling_1.0-2+lenny1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/xmltooling-schemas_1.0-2+lenny1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-doc_1.0-2+lenny1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-doc_1.0-2+lenny1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_armel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_armel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling-dev_1.0-2+lenny1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmltooling/libxmltooling1_1.0-2+lenny1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.