USN-3451-1: OpenStack Swift vulnerabilities
USN-3451-1: OpenStack Swift vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3451-1 11th October, 2017 swift vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in OpenStack Swift. Software description swift – OpenStack distributed virtual object store Details It was discovered that OpenStack Swift incorrectly handled tempurls. Aremote authenticated user in possession of a tempurl key authorized for PUTcould retrieve other objects in the same Swift account. (CVE-2015-5223) Romain Le Disez and Örjan Persson discovered that OpenStack Swiftincorrectly closed client connections. A remote attacker could possibly usethis issue to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.(CVE-2016-0737, CVE-2016-0738) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: swift 1.13.1-0ubuntu1.5 python-swift 1.13.1-0ubuntu1.5 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, [ more… ]