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Debian DSA-3176-1 Critical: DoS and Exposure In Request Tracker

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2015
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Debian's update on Security Advisory DSA-3176-1 addresses several vulnerabilities in the Request Tracker application, enhancing system security and defense measures
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Request Tracker, an extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

Summary

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.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
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Package: request-tracker4
CVE ID: CVE-2014-9472 CVE-2015-1165 CVE-2015-1464

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