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. A
remote authenticated user in possession of a tempurl key authorized for PUT
could retrieve other objects in the same Swift account. (CVE-2015-5223)
Romain Le Disez and Örjan Persson discovered that OpenStack Swift
incorrectly closed client connections. A remote attacker could possibly use
this 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, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Source: USN-3451-1: OpenStack Swift vulnerabilities
