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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : swift vulnerability (USN-2001-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70580

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Peter Portante discovered that Swift did not properly handle requests with old X-Timestamp values. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via disk consumption.

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Solution

Update the affected python-swift package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2001-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70580

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2001-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/24/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, 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: 10/23/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/20/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4155

BID: 61690

USN: 2001-1