CVE-2015-2684 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-2684?

CVE-2015-2684 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 31 Mar 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) before 2.5.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SAML message.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2684?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Shibboleth Service Provider.

How do I fix CVE-2015-2684?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-2684 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2684 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DLA-259-1, DSA-3207-1, GHSA-44gq-2834-6749, MGASA-2015-0148.