{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2016-01-20T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "openstack-swift: Proxy to server DoS through Large Objects",
    "id" : "1298905",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298905"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.8",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-400",
  "details" : [ "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.", "A memory-leak issue was found in OpenStack Object Storage (swift), in the proxy-to-server connection. An OpenStack-authenticated attacker could remotely trigger this flaw to cause denial of service through excess memory consumption." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank the Openstack project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Romain Le Disez (OVH) and Örjan Persson (Kiliaro) as the original reporters.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6",
    "release_date" : "2016-02-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:0126",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:5::el6",
    "package" : "openstack-swift-0:1.13.1-8.el6ost"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2016-02-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:0127",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:5::el7",
    "package" : "openstack-swift-0:1.13.1-8.el7ost"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2016-02-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:0128",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:6::el7",
    "package" : "openstack-swift-0:2.2.0-6.el7ost"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2016-02-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:0155",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:7::el7",
    "package" : "openstack-swift-0:2.3.0-3.el7ost"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6",
    "release_date" : "2016-03-01T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:0329",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:storage:3.1:server:el6",
    "package" : "openstack-swift-0:1.13.1-8.el6ost"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2016-03-01T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:0328",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:storage:3.1:server:el7",
    "package" : "openstack-swift-0:1.13.1-8.el7ost"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty)",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "openstack-swift",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:8"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0738\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0738" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2016-0738",
  "csaw" : false
}