Synopsis

Moderate: openstack-swift security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Updated openstack-swift packages that fix one security issue are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0.

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 Object Storage (swift) provides object storage in virtual
containers, which allows users to store and retrieve files (arbitrary
data). The service's distributed architecture supports horizontal scaling;
redundancy as failure-proofing is provided through software-based data
replication. Because Object Storage supports asynchronous eventual
consistency replication, it is well suited to multiple data-center
deployment.

A timing attack flaw was found in the way the swift TempURL middleware
responded to arbitrary TempURL requests. An attacker with knowledge of an
object's name could use this flaw to obtain a secret URL to this object,
which was intended to be publicly shared only with specific recipients, if
the object had the TempURL key set. Note that only setups using the TempURL
middleware were affected. (CVE-2014-0006)

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack Project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges Samuel Merritt of SwiftStack as the original
reporter.

All users of openstack-swift are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which correct this issue. After installing this update, the
OpenStack Object Storage 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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack grizzly x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1051670 - CVE-2014-0006 Openstack Swift: TempURL timing attack

CVEs

• CVE-2014-0006

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Red Hat OpenStack grizzly

SRPM
openstack-swift-1.8.0-8.el6ost.src.rpm	SHA-256: 86c9f544cd5314b9d7c7e879ade553760b898a00e449f3d572f91d645a26a771
x86_64
openstack-swift-1.8.0-8.el6ost.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 4eeadabcd5d229b972e1f737f6dcd9d07f929d5b70c7d2e31779c6c728fcd7d4
openstack-swift-account-1.8.0-8.el6ost.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: be2e2b344d84caace49c5f9996ce73699ebd8f6215a7f6aad0b98fce071a0bc4
openstack-swift-container-1.8.0-8.el6ost.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: dbcf15fec7394745bfa45b760dbef4d0641e9ed2f405eb2c8fdefc630d77c70a
openstack-swift-doc-1.8.0-8.el6ost.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 4b6fb5db664216b7b6e5a7633c6fbee411514419eb27a3986b76e28d72f307f8
openstack-swift-object-1.8.0-8.el6ost.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: a429e0670aeb8beff6da5e6aa56fd211d20368af8904625eff6154550496ab44
openstack-swift-proxy-1.8.0-8.el6ost.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 70ab8542fac28dbf88c3e21bf24c4aa0dce5945f4e17c31d5e32dee3b5ad49c1