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USN-2001-1: Swift vulnerability

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USN-2001-1: Swift vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/20/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/08/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

OpenStack Swift before 1.9.1 in Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana allows authenticated users to cause a denial of service ("superfluous" tombstone consumption and Swift cluster slowdown) via a DELETE request with a timestamp that is older than expected.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-swift

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