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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2019-db1e9b3002 Moderate: mod_auth_mellon Bypass Risks

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Fedora 30 mod_auth_mellon enhancement addresses vulnerabilities such as bypass flaws and open redirect threats in SAML authentication.
New upstream release 0.14.2 which also fixes CVE-2019-3878 and CVE-2019-3877

Summary

The mod_auth_mellon module is an authentication service that implements the

SAML 2.0 federation protocol. It grants access based on the attributes

received in assertions generated by a IdP server.

New upstream release 0.14.2 which also fixes CVE-2019-3878 and CVE-2019-3877

* Fri Mar 22 2019 Jakub Hrozek - 0.14.0-5

- Related: rhbz#1691771 - CVE-2019-3877 mod_auth_mellon: open redirect in

logout url when using URLs with backslashes

- Related: rhbz#1691136 - CVE-2019-3878 mod_auth_mellon: authentication

bypass in ECP flow

[ 1 ] Bug #1691771 - CVE-2019-3877 mod_auth_mellon: open redirect in logout url when using URLs with backslashes [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1691771

[ 2 ] Bug #1691136 - CVE-2019-3878 mod_auth_mellon: authentication bypass in ECP flow [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1691136

[ 3 ] Bug #1691127 - mod_auth_mellon: authentication bypass in ECP flow [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1691127

[ 4 ] Bug #1674418 - mod_auth_mellon-0.14.2 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1674418

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-db1e9b3002' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 29
Version: 0.14.0
Release: 5.fc29
Summary: A SAML 2.0 authentication module for the Apache Httpd Server

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