USN-4925-1: Shibboleth vulnerability

22 April 2021

Shibboleth could be made to display malicious content.

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Toni Huttunen and Fraktal Oy discovered that the Shibboleth Service
provider allowed content injection due to allowing attacker-controlled
parameters in error or other status pages. An attacker could use this to
inject malicious content.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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