CVE-2016-9955

Name	CVE-2016-9955
Description	The SimpleSAML_XML_Validator class constructor in SimpleSAMLphp before 1.14.11 might allow remote attackers to spoof signatures on SAML 1 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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, 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)	buster	1.16.3-1+deb10u2	fixed
	buster (security)	1.16.3-1+deb10u1	fixed
	bullseye	1.19.0-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	1.19.1-1.1	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)	1.14.11-1	low

Notes

[jessie] - simplesamlphp <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201612-02
https://github.com/simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp/commit/a2326d75dd14accaac162dd2cb30aaefcc1f9205
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/14/7