DSA-3176-1 request-tracker4 -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3176-1 request-tracker4 -- security update

Date Reported:

26 Feb 2015

Affected Packages:

request-tracker4

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-9472, CVE-2015-1165, CVE-2015-1464.

More information:

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 stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.7-5+deb7u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.2.8-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your request-tracker4 packages.