Oracle Linux 7 : ipsilon (ELSA-2016-2809)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 95041

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2016:2809 :

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.

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.

Solution

Update the affected ipsilon packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2016-November/006531.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 95041

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-2809.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/22/2016

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipsilon, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipsilon-authform, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipsilon-authgssapi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipsilon-authldap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipsilon-base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipsilon-client, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipsilon-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipsilon-infosssd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipsilon-persona, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipsilon-saml2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipsilon-saml2-base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipsilon-tools-ipa, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8638

RHSA: 2016:2809