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Ubuntu: USN-3451-1 (CVE-2016-0737): OpenStack Swift vulnerabilities

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Jan 29, 2016

Added

Oct 11, 2017

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.4.0 does not properly close client 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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-python-swiftubuntu-upgrade-swift

References

CVE-2016-0737
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-0737
EUVD-EUVD-2022-3307
NVD-CVE-2016-0737
UBUNTU-USN-3451-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-3307

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