Debian DSA-2737-1 : swift - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 69354

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Swift, the Openstack object storage. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2013-2161 Alex Gaynor from Rackspace reported a vulnerability in XML handling within Swift account servers. Account strings were unescaped in xml listings, and an attacker could potentially generate unparsable or arbitrary XML responses which may be used to leverage other vulnerabilities in the calling software.

- CVE-2013-4155 Peter Portante from Red Hat reported a vulnerability in Swift. By issuing requests with an old X-Timestamp value, an authenticated attacker can fill an object server with superfluous object tombstones, which may significantly slow down subsequent requests to that object server, facilitating a Denial of Service attack against Swift clusters.

Solution

Upgrade the swift packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.8-2+deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 69354

File Name: debian_DSA-2737.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/15/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:swift, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2161, CVE-2013-4155

BID: 60543, 61690

DSA: 2737

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