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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0993 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2013-06-27
Updated:
2013-06-27

RHSA-2013:0993 - Security Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Moderate: openstack-swift security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

Updated openstack-swift packages that fix one security issue and one bug
are now available for Red Hat OpenStack 3.0 (Grizzly) Preview.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate
security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in
the References section.

Description

OpenStack Swift (http://swift.openstack.org) is a highly available,
distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store.

An XML injection flaw in OpenStack Swift could allow remote attackers
to manipulate the contents of XML responses via specially-crafted data.
This could be used to trigger a denial of service. (CVE-2013-2161)

Red Hat would like to thank Alex Gaynor from Rackspace for reporting this
issue.

This update also fixes the following bug:

  • If permissions on the "/etc/swift/" directory were incorrect, services

(such as swift-proxy-server) flooded the console and "/var/log/messages"
with "UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION" errors, including a traceback and "Permission
denied: '/etc/swift/proxy-server.conf'" message. This could occur when
restarting a service or updating the packages. (BZ#967631)

All users of openstack-swift are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which correct these issues. After installing this update, the
OpenStack Swift services will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenStack grizzly x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 967631 - swift keeps spamming console when it cannot access config.
  • BZ - 972988 - CVE-2013-2161 OpenStack Swift: Unchecked user input in Swift XML responses

CVEs

  • CVE-2013-2161

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat OpenStack grizzly

SRPM
openstack-swift-1.8.0-6.el6ost.src.rpm SHA-256: a00710921f2222352637110584888d3f34de6bb4fd8ae22752d47ac13a940668
x86_64
openstack-swift-1.8.0-6.el6ost.noarch.rpm SHA-256: cbdb5b665a6f6edf78a6facc18727ac3d3712a84dfb05e6afead801031ef5994
openstack-swift-account-1.8.0-6.el6ost.noarch.rpm SHA-256: b21414a6d30c217ca6f097b319dd156db213cf4c7272901e17741cda5a92f552
openstack-swift-container-1.8.0-6.el6ost.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 82a6a9f9bd6589ca0d5927c90c2850f2e4871f01b9e2b762a2168dd6d643d936
openstack-swift-doc-1.8.0-6.el6ost.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e5b7ed436228fe819a87fbfe4c4175cf4120af0a5cd5edaf85c8d46523ca05b5
openstack-swift-object-1.8.0-6.el6ost.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 3ed29ca29b3c2c506c1b86b300e3aa0ab1fa90256b6be385e820bf666294fe2a
openstack-swift-proxy-1.8.0-6.el6ost.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 8ebca6633089bc869c7b977bfbc23637af551a19234aca3c48bb6fdbac1ab98b

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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