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ubuntu-cve-2016-9814

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2017-02-17 02:59

Modified

2025-10-24 04:45

Summary

Details

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.

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)

low

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9814	REPORT
	https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201612-01	REPORT
	https://github.com/simplesamlphp/saml2/pull/81	REPORT
	https://github.com/simplesamlphp/saml2/commit/700…	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/03/5	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9814	REPORT

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            "binary_version": "1.14.0-1ubuntu2"
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  "modified": "2025-10-24T04:45:58Z",
  "published": "2017-02-17T02:59:00Z",
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    },
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    }
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  ]
}

CVE-2016-9814 (GCVE-0-2016-9814)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-16 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:59

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

debian

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94730	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201612-01	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2016-12-02 00:00

Show details on NVD website

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ubuntu-cve-2016-9814

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2016-9814 (GCVE-0-2016-9814)

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