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Debian: CVE-2016-9955: simplesamlphp -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-9955: simplesamlphp -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/16/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/25/2019
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

The SimpleSAML_XML_Validator class constructor in SimpleSAMLphp before 1.14.11 might allow remote attackers to spoof signatures on SAML 1 responses or possibly cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging improper conversion of return values to boolean.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-simplesamlphp

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