Security update for python-pysaml2

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:0569-1
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2016-10127 ( NVD ): 9.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2016-10149 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6

An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description:

This update for python-pysaml2 fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2016-10127 and CVE-2016-10149: XXE (XML external entity) issues were fixed in python-pysaml2, where external requests to other XML content could be made by parsing XML files using this SAML2 library. (bsc#1019074)

To fix this bug, the new dependency python-defusedxml was added and is used for sanitizing XML content.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-6-2017-298=1

Package List:

  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 (noarch)
    • python-pysaml2-2.4.0-3.1
    • python-defusedxml-0.4.1-2.1

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