Debian DSA-2480-4 : request-tracker3.8 - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59758

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Request Tracker, an issue tracking system :

- CVE-2011-2082 The vulnerable-passwords scripts introduced for CVE-2011-0009 failed to correct the password hashes of disabled users.

- CVE-2011-2083 Several cross-site scripting issues have been discovered.

- CVE-2011-2084 Password hashes could be disclosed by privileged users.

- CVE-2011-2085 Several cross-site request forgery vulnerabilities have been found. If this update breaks your setup, you can restore the old behaviour by setting $RestrictReferrer to 0.

- CVE-2011-4458 The code to support variable envelope return paths allowed the execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2011-4459 Disabled groups were not fully accounted as disabled.

- CVE-2011-4460 SQL injection vulnerability, only exploitable by privileged users.

Please note that if you run request-tracker3.8 under the Apache web server, you must stop and start Apache manually. The 'restart' mechanism is not recommended, especially when using mod_perl.

Solution

Upgrade the request-tracker3.8 packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.8.8-7+squeeze5.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59758

File Name: debian_DSA-2480.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/29/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:request-tracker3.8, 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: 9/15/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2082, CVE-2011-2083, CVE-2011-2084, CVE-2011-2085, CVE-2011-4458, CVE-2011-4459, CVE-2011-4460

BID: 53660

DSA: 2480

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