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Debian DLA-158-1 : request-tracker3.8 security update
high Nessus Plugin ID 82141
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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
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 3/26/2015
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:request-tracker3.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt3.8-apache2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt3.8-clients, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt3.8-db-mysql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt3.8-db-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rt3.8-db-sqlite, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2015