Executive Summary

Summary
Title Swift vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-2704-1 First vendor Publication 2015-08-06
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-08-06
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

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

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2704-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
50 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 42
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-08-10 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-12245.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-06 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2704-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-08-12 13:33:40
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-06 09:26:01
  • First insertion