Debian DLA-988-1 : rt-authen-externalauth security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 100848

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that RT::Authen::ExternalAuth, an external authentication module for Request Tracker, is vulnerable to timing side-channel attacks for user passwords. Only ExternalAuth in DBI (database) mode is vulnerable.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.10-4+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rt-authen-externalauth packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected rt4-extension-authenexternalauth package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 100848

File Name: debian_DLA-988.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/19/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt4-extension-authenexternalauth, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5361

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