CVE-2016-9814

Name	CVE-2016-9814
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-1298-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
simplesamlphp (PTS)	bullseye	1.19.0-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid, trixie	1.19.7-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
simplesamlphp	source	wheezy	1.9.2-1+deb7u3		DLA-1298-1
simplesamlphp	source	(unstable)	1.14.10-1	low

Notes

[jessie] - simplesamlphp <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201612-01
https://github.com/simplesamlphp/saml2/pull/81
https://github.com/simplesamlphp/saml2/commit/7008b0916426212c1cc2fc238b38ab9ebff0748c
only exploitable in hard to achieve conditions
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/03/5