Bulletin-O-Matic Text Version __________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) Vulnerability [Debian Security Advisory DSA-1298-1] May 31, 2007 18:00 GMT Number R-257 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: The Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) performs insufficient input sanitising for the Subaction parameter, which allows the injection of arbitrary web script code. PLATFORM: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) DAMAGE: Allows the injction of arbitrary web script code. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is LOW. Allows the injection of arbitrary web script ASSESSMENT: code. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/r-257.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1298 CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2007-2524 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Debian Security Advisory DSA-1298-1 *****] Debian Security Advisory DSA-1298-1 otrs2 -- missing input sanitising Date Reported: 28 May 2007 Affected Packages: otrs2 Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-2524. More information: It was discovered that the Open Ticket Request System performs insufficient input sanitising for the Subaction parameter, which allows the injection of arbitrary web script code. The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include otrs2. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.4p01-18. The unstable distribution (sid) isn't affected by this problem. We recommend that you upgrade your otrs2 package. Fixed in: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) Source: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/otrs2/otrs2_2.0.4p01-18.dsc http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/otrs2/otrs2_2.0.4p01-18.diff.gz http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/otrs2/otrs2_2.0.4p01.orig.tar.gz Architecture-independent component: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/otrs2/otrs2_2.0.4p01-18_all.deb MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory. 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