CVE-2015-5242 Information

Description

OpenStack Swift-on-File (aka Swiftonfile) does not properly restrict use of the pickle Python module when loading metadata which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted extended attribute (xattrs).

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1918.html https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1985893 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258743 https://review.openstack.org//c/237994/