Re: CVE request: python-pysaml2 XML external entity attack

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> python-pysaml2 does
> not sanitize SAML XML requests or responses:
>
>   https://github.com/rohe/pysaml2/issues/366
>   https://github.com/rohe/pysaml2/pull/379
>   https://bugs.debian.org/850716
>   https://github.com/rohe/pysaml2/commit/6e09a25d9b4b7aa7a506853210a9a14100b8bc9b

Use CVE-2016-10127 for the vulnerability addressed by "Fix XXE in XML
parsing" in 6e09a25d9b4b7aa7a506853210a9a14100b8bc9b.

The scope of this CVE does not include the various other issues that
may be found in the above references:

 - it does not include any aspect of
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772726

 - it does not include any vulnerabilities in the XML Security Library
   (xmlsec), such as ones that are now, or previously were, listed at
   https://github.com/lsh123/xmlsec/issues

 - it does not include any CWE-776 (Entity Expansion) issues that may
   have been fixed as a side effect of
   6e09a25d9b4b7aa7a506853210a9a14100b8bc9b (possibly there are new
   test cases in 6e09a25d9b4b7aa7a506853210a9a14100b8bc9b for CWE-776)

If the references need more CVE IDs related to any of these other
topics, please let us know.

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