[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: mod_auth_mellon-0.11.1-1.fc23
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Sun Mar 20 02:32:35 UTC 2016
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-5cf6959198
2016-03-19 22:17:41.316290
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Name : mod_auth_mellon
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 0.11.1
Release : 1.fc23
URL : https://github.com/UNINETT/mod_auth_mellon
Summary : A SAML 2.0 authentication module for the Apache Httpd Server
Description :
The mod_auth_mellon module is an authentication service that implements the
SAML 2.0 federation protocol. It grants access based on the attributes
received in assertions generated by a IdP server.
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Update Information:
[CVE-2016-2145] Fix DOS attack (Apache worker process crash) due to incorrect
error handling when reading POST data from client. [CVE-2016-2146] Fix DOS
attack (Apache worker process crash resource exhaustion) due to missing size
checks when reading POST data.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1315747 - CVE-2016-2146 mod_auth_mellon: Failure to limit amount of POST data submitted by client
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315747
[ 2 ] Bug #1315739 - CVE-2016-2145 mod_auth_mellon: Missing error check when calling ap_get_client_block()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315739
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update mod_auth_mellon' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
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