CVE-2016-0738

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.

References

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

https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG

https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1493303

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

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176713.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3