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

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

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/29/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/11/2017
Modified
04/25/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-swift
  • ubuntu-upgrade-swift

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