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An Opensaml2 update has been released for Debian



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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2284-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
July 25, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : opensaml2
Vulnerability : implementation error
Problem type : local(remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2011-1411

Juraj Somorovsky, Andreas Mayer, Meiko Jensen, Florian Kohlar, Marco
Kampmann and Joerg Schwenk discovered that Shibboleth, a federated web
single sign-on system is vulnerable to XML signature wrapping attacks.
More details can be found in the Shibboleth
advisory at http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/security-advisories.html

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0-2+lenny3.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3-2+squeeze1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your opensaml2 packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/