Bug 1475072 (CVE-2017-5361)

Summary:	CVE-2017-5361 rt: timing side-channel attack in secrets constant-time comparison algorithm
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-07-26 01:14:02 UTC

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-2017-06-15/32016

References:

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3882
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3883

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-07-26 01:36:41 UTC

Created rt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475084]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:18:05 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.