| Name | CVE-2016-9814 |
| Description | The validateSignature method in the SAML2\Utils class in SimpleSAMLphp before 1.14.10 and simplesamlphp/saml2 library before 1.9.1, 1.10.x before 1.10.3, and 2.x before 2.3.3 allows remote attackers to spoof SAML responses or possibly cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging improper conversion of return values to boolean. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1298-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| simplesamlphp (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.13.1-2+deb8u3 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.14.11-1+deb9u2 | fixed |
| buster | 1.16.3-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster (lts) | 1.16.3-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.19.0-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie, bookworm | 1.19.7-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[jessie] - simplesamlphp <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201612-01
https://github.com/simplesamlphp/saml2/pull/81
https://github.com/simplesamlphp/saml2/commit/7008b0916426212c1cc2fc238b38ab9ebff0748c
only exploitable in hard to achieve conditions
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/03/5