CVE-2016-0738 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176713.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432 https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1493303 https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5