CVE-2016-9955 (GCVE-0-2016-9955)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-02-16 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 03:07
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The SimpleSAML_XML_Validator class constructor in SimpleSAMLphp before 1.14.11 might allow remote attackers to spoof signatures on SAML 1 responses or possibly cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging improper conversion of return values to boolean.
References
security@debian.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94946Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@debian.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00001.htmlThird Party Advisory
security@debian.orghttps://simplesamlphp.org/security/201612-02Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94946Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00001.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201612-02Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
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