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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-3057-1 request-tracker4 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

23 Jun 2022

Affected Packages:

request-tracker4

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-38562.

More information:

It was discovered that there was an issue in request-tracker4, a extensible ticket/issue tracking system. Sensitive information could have been revealed by way of a timing attack on the authentication system.

• CVE-2021-38562

  Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) 4.2 before 4.2.17, 4.4 before 4.4.5, and 5.0 before 5.0.2 allows sensitive information disclosure via a timing attack against lib/RT/REST2/Middleware/Auth.pm.

For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.4.1-3+deb9u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your request-tracker4 packages.

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