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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2019-2d8ee47f61 Critical Mod_Auth_Mellon Auth Issue

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Calendar Grey April 9, 2019
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Important patch released for mod_auth_mellon in Fedora 30 improves authentication capabilities and resolves significant vulnerabilities.
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

[ 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-2019-2d8ee47f61' 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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Product: Fedora 30
Version: 0.14.2
Release: 1.fc30
Summary: A SAML 2.0 authentication module for the Apache Httpd Server

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