Matt Elder discovered that Shibboleth, a federated web single sign-on
system is vulnerable to script injection through redirection URLs. More
details can be found in the Shibboleth advisory at
For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3f.dfsg1-2+etch2 of shibboleth-sp.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.1.dfsg1-3+lenny2 of shibboleth-sp, version 2.0.dfsg1-4+lenny2
of shibboleth-sp2 and version 2.0-2+lenny2 of opensaml2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3+dfsg-1 of shibboleth-sp2, version 2.3-1 of opensaml2 and
version 1.3.1-1 of xmltooling.
We recommend that you upgrade your Shibboleth packages.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the intern...
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