Vulnerability CVE-2016-0738
Published: 2016-01-29

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Openstack -> Swift 

 References:
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
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