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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1408-1 simplesamlphp -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

29 Jun 2018

Affected Packages:

simplesamlphp

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-12868, CVE-2017-12872.

More information:

• CVE-2017-12872 / CVE-2017-12868

  The (1) Htpasswd authentication source in the authcrypt module and (2) SimpleSAML_Session class in SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.11 and earlier allow remote attackers to conduct timing side-channel attacks by leveraging use of the standard comparison operator to compare secret material against user input.

  CVE-2017-12868 was a about an improper fix of CVE-2017-12872 in the initial patch released by upstream. We have used the correct patch.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.13.1-2+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your simplesamlphp packages.

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