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Red Hat 7: RHSA-2016:2809-01 Important: Ipsilon DoS Session Issue

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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ==================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: ipsilon security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2809-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2809.html Issue date: 2016-11-21 CVE Names: CVE-2016-8638 ==================================================================== 1. Summary: 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 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7): Source: ipsilon-1.0.0-13.el7_3.src.rpm noarch: ipsilon-1.0.0-13.el7_3.noarch.rpm ipsilon-authform-1.0.0-13.el7_3.noarch.rpm ipsilon-authgssapi-1.0.0-13.el7_3.noarch.rpm ipsilon-authldap-1.0.0-13.el7_3.noarch.rpm ipsilon-base-1.0.0-13.el7_3.noarch.rpm ipsilon-client-1.0.0-13.el7_3.noarch.rpm ipsilon-filesystem-1.0.0-13.el7_3.noarch.rpm ipsilon-infosssd-1.0.0-13.el7_3.noarch.rpm ipsilon-persona-1.0.0-13.el7_3.noarch.rpm ipsilon-saml2-1.0.0-13.el7_3.noarch.rpm ipsilon-saml2-base-1.0.0-13.el7_3.noarch.rpm ipsilon-tools-ipa-1.0.0-13.el7_3.noarch.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/ 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8638 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFYMumXXlSAg2UNWIIRAiLWAJ9KI2+OnMI5+a9ufCpKAV4/aoBztgCgoFNK YaJ728CWgwA3R5mGP6taDLk=xOPm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Enterprise-watch-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . A vital patch for pascal on CentOS 7 tackles vulnerabilities related to authorization management.. Red Hat Security,Ipsilon Update,Identity Provider Security,Session Management,DoS Threat. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Nov 21, 2016 •Important Red Hat