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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenStack Swift vulnerabilities (USN-3451-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 103814

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3451-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that OpenStack Swift incorrectly handled tempurls. A remote authenticated user in possession of a tempurl key authorized for PUT could retrieve other objects in the same Swift account.
 (CVE-2015-5223)

 Romain Le Disez and rjan Persson discovered that OpenStack Swift incorrectly closed client connections.
 A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2016-0737, CVE-2016-0738)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3451-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 103814

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3451-1.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/12/2017

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5223

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-0738

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-object, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-container, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-proxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-account, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swift-object-expirer, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-swift

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/11/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5223, CVE-2016-0737, CVE-2016-0738

USN: 3451-1