Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Request Tracker, an
extensible trouble-ticket tracking system. The Common Vulnerabilities
and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
Request Tracker stock templates are resolved by this update. But any
custom email templates should be updated to ensure that values
interpolated into mail headers do not contain newlines.
This version of Request Tracker includes a database content upgrade. If
you are using a dbconfig-managed database, you will be offered the
choice of applying this automatically. Otherwise see the explanation in
/usr/share/doc/request-tracker3.8/NEWS.Debian.gz for the manual steps to
perform.
Please note that if you run request-tracker3.8 under the Apache web
server, you must stop and start Apache manually. The restart mechanism
is not recommended, especially when using mod_perl or any form of
persistent Perl process such as FastCGI or SpeedyCGI.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.8.8-7+squeeze7.
The stable, testing and unstable distributions do not contain anymore
request-tracker3.8, which is replaced by request-tracker4.
We recommend that you upgrade your request-tracker3.8 packages.