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[USN-2704-1] Swift vulnerabilities

2015-08-2400:00:00
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2704-1
August 06, 2015

swift vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 15.04
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Swift.

Software Description:

  • swift: OpenStack distributed virtual object store

Details:

Rajaneesh Singh discovered Swift does not properly enforce metadata
limits. An attacker could abuse this issue to store more metadata than
allowed by policy. (CVE-2014-7960)

Clay Gerrard discovered Swift allowed users to delete the latest version
of object regardless of object permissions when allow_version is
configured. An attacker could use this issue to delete objects.
(CVE-2015-1856)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 15.04:
swift 2.2.2-0ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
swift 1.13.1-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
swift 1.4.8-0ubuntu2.5

After a standard system update you need to restart swift to make
all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2704-1
CVE-2014-7960, CVE-2015-1856

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/swift/2.2.2-0ubuntu1.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/swift/1.13.1-0ubuntu1.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/swift/1.4.8-0ubuntu2.5

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