Debian DLA-158-1 : request-tracker3.8 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 82141

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Request Tracker, an extensible trouble-ticket tracking system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

CVE-2014-9472

Christian Loos discovered a remote denial of service vulnerability, exploitable via the email gateway and affecting any installation which accepts mail from untrusted sources. Depending on RT's logging configuration, a remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause CPU and excessive disk usage.

CVE-2015-1165

Christian Loos discovered an information disclosure flaw which may reveal RSS feeds URLs, and thus ticket data.

CVE-2015-1464

It was discovered that RSS feed URLs can be leveraged to perform session hijacking, allowing a user with the URL to log in as the user that created the feed.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.8.8-7+squeeze9.

We recommend that you upgrade your request-tracker3.8 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 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/02/msg00012.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/request-tracker3.8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82141

File Name: debian_DLA-158.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt3.8-clients, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt3.8-apache2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt3.8-db-mysql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt3.8-db-postgresql, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:request-tracker3.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt3.8-db-sqlite

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9472, CVE-2015-1165, CVE-2015-1464

BID: 72832, 72833, 72837