Mageia alert MGASA-2014-0552 (wss4j)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2014-0552: Updated wss4j packages fix CVE-2014-3623 
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Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:05:24 +0100
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MGASA-2014-0552 - Updated wss4j packages fix CVE-2014-3623

Publication date: 26 Dec 2014
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0552.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 4
CVE: CVE-2014-3623

Description:
Updated wss4j packages fixes security vulnerability:

Apache WSS4J before 1.6.17, when using TransportBinding, does not properly
enforce the SAML SubjectConfirmation method security semantics, which allows
remote attackers to conduct spoofing attacks via unspecified vectors
(CVE-2014-3623).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14484
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announc...
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3623

SRPMS:
- 4/core/wss4j-1.6.17-1.mga4