https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475072
Bug ID: 1475072 Summary: CVE-2017-5361 rt: timing side-channel attack in secrets constant-time comparison algorithm Product: Security Response Component: vulnerability Keywords: Security Severity: low Priority: low Assignee: security-response-team@redhat.com Reporter: psampaio@redhat.com CC: perl-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org, rc040203@freenet.de, tibbs@math.uh.edu
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.
Upstream patch:
https://forum.bestpractical.com/t/security-vulnerabilities-in-rt-2017-06-15/...
References:
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3882 https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3883