DSA-4039-1 opensaml2 -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4039-1 opensaml2 -- security update

Date Reported:

16 Nov 2017

Affected Packages:

opensaml2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 881856.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-16853.

More information:

Rod Widdowson of Steading System Software LLP discovered a coding error in the OpenSAML library, causing the DynamicMetadataProvider class to fail configuring itself with the filters provided and omitting whatever checks they are intended to perform.

See https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20171115.txt for details.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.3-2+deb8u2.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.0-4+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your opensaml2 packages.