CVE-2016-0737

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.

References

https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/217750/

https://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/2.4.0

https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1466549

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3