Executive Summary

Summary
Title ipsilon security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2016:2809 First vendor Publication 2016-11-21
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2016-11-21
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.4 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

An update for ipsilon is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

3. Description:

The ipsilon packages provide the Ipsilon identity provider service for federated single sign-on (SSO). Ipsilon links authentication providers and applications or utilities to allow for SSO. It includes a server and utilities to configure Apache-based service providers.

Security Fix(es):

* A vulnerability was found in ipsilon in the SAML2 provider's handling of sessions. An attacker able to hit the logout URL could determine what service providers other users are logged in to and terminate their sessions. (CVE-2016-8638)

This issue was discovered by Patrick Uiterwijk (Red Hat) and Howard Johnson.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1392829 - CVE-2016-8638 ipsilon: DoS via logging out all open SAML2 sessions

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2809.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-384 Session Fixation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-01-19 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-29 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-2d8fb6d7ad.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-29 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-b465090499.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-28 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-2809.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-22 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-2809.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-2809.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-01-05 09:26:25
  • Multiple Updates
2016-11-29 13:23:41
  • Multiple Updates
2016-11-23 13:25:43
  • Multiple Updates
2016-11-21 17:21:53
  • First insertion