PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-01-29
Candidate: CVE-2016-0738
PublicDate: 2016-01-29 20:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0738
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/17
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3451-1
Description:
 OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.3.1 (Kilo), 2.4.x, and 2.5.x
 before 2.5.1 (Liberty) do not properly close server connections, which
 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (proxy-server resource
 consumption) via a series of interrupted requests to a Large Object URL.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1493303
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Romain Le Disez and Örjan Persson
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_swift:
 upstream: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/270234/
upstream_swift: released (2.5.1)
precise_swift: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_swift: DNE (precise was needs-triage)
trusty_swift: released (1.13.1-0ubuntu1.5)
trusty/esm_swift: DNE (trusty was released [1.13.1-0ubuntu1.5])
vivid_swift: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_swift: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_swift: DNE
wily_swift: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_swift: not-affected (2.7.0-0ubuntu2)
esm-infra/xenial_swift: not-affected (2.7.0-0ubuntu2)
yakkety_swift: not-affected (2.7.0-0ubuntu2)
zesty_swift: not-affected (2.7.0-0ubuntu2)
devel_swift: not-affected (2.7.0-0ubuntu2)