Security Information / 2017 / Security Information -- DSA-3883-1 rt-authen-externalauth

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3883-1 rt-authen-externalauth -- security update

Date Reported:

15 Jun 2017

Affected Packages:

rt-authen-externalauth

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5361.

More information:

It was discovered that RT::Authen::ExternalAuth, an external authentication module for Request Tracker, is vulnerable to timing side-channel attacks for user passwords. Only ExternalAuth in DBI (database) mode is vulnerable.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.25-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rt-authen-externalauth packages.