Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package shibboleth-sp2 (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published16 Nov 2017
- disclosed16 Nov 2017
Introduced: 16 Nov 2017
CVE-2017-16852 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream shibboleth-sp2 package and not the shibboleth-sp2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.
shibsp/metadata/DynamicMetadataProvider.cpp in the Dynamic MetadataProvider plugin in Shibboleth Service Provider before 2.6.1 fails to properly configure itself with the MetadataFilter plugins and does not perform critical security checks such as signature verification, enforcement of validity periods, and other checks specific to deployments, aka SSPCPP-763.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-16852
- https://bugs.debian.org/881857
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4038
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00025.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16852
- https://git.shibboleth.net/view/?p=cpp-sp.git;a=commit;h=b66cceb0e992c351ad5e2c665229ede82f261b16
- https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20171115.txt
- https://git.shibboleth.net/view/?p=cpp-sp.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b66cceb0e992c351ad5e2c665229ede82f261b16